{"id":38657,"date":"2021-11-05T09:22:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T00:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/05\/vast-veggie-huge-new-zealand-potato-weighing-79kg-could-claim-world-record"},"modified":"2021-11-05T09:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T00:22:52","slug":"vast-veggie-huge-new-zealand-potato-weighing-7-9kg-could-claim-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38657","title":{"rendered":"Vast veggie: huge New Zealand potato weighing 7.9kg could claim world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colin and Donna Craig-Brown have named the 17.4lb tuber Doug and have been taking him for walks<\/p>\n<p>A giant 7.9kg potato found in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> couple\u2019s overgrown garden may set a new world record for the largest of its kind ever to be discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Colin and Donna Craig-Brown were doing a spot of weeding in their Hamilton back yard, when Colin\u2019s hoe hit something below the ground.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/05\/vast-veggie-huge-new-zealand-potato-weighing-79kg-could-claim-world-record\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin and Donna Craig-Brown have named the 17.4lb tuber Doug and have been taking him for walksA giant 7.9kg potato found in a New Zealand couple\u2019s overgrown garden may set a new world record for the largest of its kind ever to be discovered.Colin and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1056,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-guinness-world-records","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38658,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38657\/revisions\/38658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}