{"id":30761,"date":"2018-07-05T03:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T03:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30761"},"modified":"2018-07-05T03:15:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T03:15:59","slug":"hot-dog-gluttony-a-sporting-event-cmon-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30761","title":{"rendered":"Hot dog gluttony &#8230; a sporting event? C&#8217;mon, man!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chestnut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30762\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chestnut-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chestnut-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chestnut.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I noticed an item on ESPN.com that simply boggles my mind.<\/p>\n<p>The renowned sports network has a link in which it tells us that Joey Chestnut has won the Nathan&#8217;s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, Chestnut chowed down 74 franks and buns in 10 minutes. What a beast. What a manly man. What a hoss.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the question I have for you: This is a sporting event?<\/p>\n<p>Read the ESPN.com story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/moresports\/story\/_\/id\/23998448\/joey-chestnut-eats-record-74-hot-dogs-nathan-famous-hot-dog-eating-contest\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised. I mean, after all, ESPN stands for <em>Entertainment<\/em> and Sports Programming Network. Thus, the &#8220;entertainment&#8221; aspect of the network&#8217;s mission makes this a sports spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>As ESPN.com reported: <em>&#8220;I found a vicious rhythm,&#8221; the 34-year-old Chestnut said after the stuffing session. &#8220;I was feeling good today.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You go for it, chow hound.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting indigestion just writing about it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed an item on ESPN.com that simply boggles my mind. The renowned sports network has a link in which it tells us that Joey Chestnut has won the Nathan&#8217;s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. Yep, Chestnut chowed down 74 franks and buns in 10 minutes. What a beast. What a manly man. What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30761\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hot dog gluttony &#8230; a sporting event? C&#8217;mon, man!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[1624,7857],"class_list":["post-30761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-sports-news","tag-espn","tag-hot-dog-eating-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30763,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30761\/revisions\/30763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}