{"id":817,"date":"2007-12-21T23:55:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T04:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2007\/12\/21\/rock-bottom-competition\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T20:36:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T01:36:48","slug":"rock-bottom-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2007\/12\/21\/rock-bottom-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Bottom Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>What an arm!<\/p>\n<div style=\u00e2\u20ac\u009ddisplay:block;float:left;padding:5px;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d><!--adsense#smallsquare--><\/div>\n<p>A Pennsylvania man set the world record by skipping a single stone on water 51 times.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>Russell Byars, 43, shattered the previous record of 40 skims.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>&#8220;I actually threw 40 stones that day, but that was the first skip that I threw,&#8221; said Byars, who is known as &#8220;Rock Bottom&#8221; in the competitive stone-skipping world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b1291d92551e5c93995fce7897ccfc30\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<br\/>\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* OddPlanet_300x250_underpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8431788844\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br\/>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<br\/>\r\n\r\n<?php if ( is_search() || is_single() || is_page() || is_paged() || is_category() || is_archive() ) { ?>\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n  ( function() {\r\n    if (window.CHITIKA === undefined) { window.CHITIKA = { 'units' : [] }; };\r\n    var unit = {\"calltype\":\"async[2]\",\"publisher\":\"dragonden\",\"width\":550,\"height\":250,\"sid\":\"oddplanet\",\"color_site_link\":\"cf4343\",\"color_text\":\"333333\"};\r\n    var placement_id = window.CHITIKA.units.length;\r\n    window.CHITIKA.units.push(unit);\r\n    document.write('<div id=\"chitikaAdBlock-' + placement_id + '\"><\/div>');\r\n}());\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/cdn.chitika.net\/getads.js\" async><\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<?php } ?>\r\n<br\/>\r\n<br\/>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an arm! A Pennsylvania man set the world record by skipping a single stone on water 51 times. Russell Byars, 43, shattered the previous record of 40 skims. &#8220;I actually threw 40 stones that day, but that was the first skip that I threw,&#8221; said Byars, who is known as &#8220;Rock Bottom&#8221; in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,40,25],"tags":[3281,3282,3283,3284,156,749,1979],"class_list":{"0":"post-817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-generally-odd","7":"category-home-and-lifestyle","8":"category-recreation","9":"tag-skipping-stone","10":"tag-stone","11":"tag-throw","12":"tag-throwing","13":"tag-water","14":"tag-world","15":"tag-world-record","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}