{"id":9496,"date":"2009-09-06T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-06T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T15:42:00","slug":"world-record-for-uninterrupted-tv-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/9496-world-record-for-uninterrupted-tv-watching.html","title":{"rendered":"World record for uninterrupted TV watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time Efraim van Oeveren, from the town of Tilburg, spent awake in front of a TV was six hours longer than the previous award-winning coach potato from New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Van Oeveren fought exhaustion together with two other Dutch contestants, attended by doctors and a jury. A 20-year-old competitor threw in the towel at 40 hours, while the 30-year-old TV fan held out for 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The rules of the ordeal allowed contestants one 5-minute pause per hour to rest their eyes or to save the time to allow for showers and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Contestants were able to chose their own viewing programmes, and the winner is to receive mention in the Guinness Book of World Records and a new television set.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=190576\"><strong>TV watching record<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old Dutch man on Sunday finished 86 uninterrupted hours of television watching to become the world record holder, according to Dutch broadcaster NOS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}