{"id":88081,"date":"2013-10-02T18:29:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T16:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=88081"},"modified":"2013-10-02T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T16:30:35","slug":"virgin-mobile-guinness-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/88081-virgin-mobile-guinness-world-record.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Mobile Guinness world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Mobile on Wednesday achieved a Guinness world record for the most number of people crammed into a Mini Cooper, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Twenty five people squeezed into the old-school Mini at the new Virgin Mobile concept store in Braamfontein under the watchful eye of the media, the public, several officials, and Sir Richard Branson himself,&#8221; spokeswoman Natasha Kleyn said in statement.<\/p>\n<p>The new store is said to feature a mixture of British heritage and strong Johannesburg influences. As a way to celebrate the launch of the store, the company said it wanted to bring the world record title to South Africa from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The previous record for &#8216;Most people crammed in a Mini Cooper&#8217; (classic model) is 23 and was achieved by Danielle Maynard and the David Lloyd Divas (UK) on 15 November 2012,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mini will be used as a photo booth for customers visiting the store.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Virgin Mobile<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Red Bull Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Cell C\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/17935-red-bull-mobile-virgin-mobile-and-cell-c.html\"><strong>Red Bull Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Cell C<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Virgin Galactic spaceship makes 1st powered flight\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/76798-virgin-galactic-spaceship-makes-1st-powered-flight.html\"><strong>Virgin Galactic spaceship makes 1st powered flight<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Mobile on Wednesday achieved a Guinness world record for the most number of people crammed into a Mini Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,17524,1119],"class_list":["post-88081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-richard-branson","tag-virgin-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88087,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88081\/revisions\/88087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}