{"id":42482,"date":"2022-03-16T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T06:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/16\/giant-new-zealand-potato-is-not-in-fact-a-potato-guinness-world-records-rules"},"modified":"2022-03-16T15:46:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T06:46:26","slug":"giant-new-zealand-potato-is-not-in-fact-a-potato-guinness-world-records-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42482","title":{"rendered":"Giant New Zealand potato is not in fact a potato, Guinness World Records rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple who believed they had dug up the world\u2019s largest potato in the garden of their small farm near Hamilton have had their dreams turned to mash <\/p>\n<p>When is a potato not a potato? When it\u2019s a tuber of a gourd, according to Guinness World Records.<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand couple who believed they had dug up the world\u2019s largest potato in the garden of their small farm near Hamilton have had their dreams turned to mash after Guinness wrote to say that scientific testing had found it wasn\u2019t, in fact, a potato after all.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/16\/giant-new-zealand-potato-is-not-in-fact-a-potato-guinness-world-records-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple who believed they had dug up the world\u2019s largest potato in the garden of their small farm near Hamilton have had their dreams turned to mash When is a potato not a potato? When it\u2019s a tuber of a gourd, according to Guinness World Records.A New Z&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/42482","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42483,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482\/revisions\/42483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}