{"id":148517,"date":"2018-07-05T11:09:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=148517"},"modified":"2018-07-05T15:08:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T20:08:11","slug":"record-74-dogs-downed-july-4-eating-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=148517","title":{"rendered":"Record, 74 dogs downed, July 4 eating contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hotdogeating.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-148530 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hotdogeating-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hotdogeating-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hotdogeating-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hotdogeating.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(AP) &#8212; Joey Chestnut extended his reign as champion eater at the Nathan&#8217;s Famous July Fourth hot dog eating contest Wednesday, downing a record 74 wieners and buns in 10 minutes to take home the coveted Mustard Belt for an 11th time.<\/p>\n<p>Miki Sudo held onto her title as the top woman&#8217;s competitor at the annual Brooklyn eat-off, chomping 37 franks and buns to take home the top prize for an unprecedented fifth consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I found a vicious rhythm,&#8221; the 34-year-old Chestnut said after the stuffing session. &#8220;I was feeling good today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But while Chestnut ate 10 more dogs and buns than second-place finisher Carmen Cincotti, a judging error cast initial doubt over their totals after jurists didn&#8217;t see the eaters were taking the dogs and buns from two plates.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Gonzalez, the Brooklyn district attorney, certified the final tally and Chestnut&#8217;s record of 74.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, Joey Chestnut came in here and ate 74 hot dogs, broke a world record,&#8221; said Cincotti, who celebrated his 26th birthday on Wednesday. &#8220;Apparently they were good dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sudo fell short of the 41 hot dogs she consumed last year, but easily beat out second-place finisher Mischelle Lesco of Tuscon, Arizona, who chowed down 28 wieners and buns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) &#8212; Joey Chestnut extended his reign as champion eater at the Nathan&#8217;s Famous July Fourth hot dog eating contest Wednesday, downing a record 74 wieners and buns in 10 minutes to take home the coveted Mustard Belt for an 11th time. Miki Sudo held onto her title as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148517"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148560,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148517\/revisions\/148560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}