{"id":5128,"date":"2011-11-19T01:07:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T00:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5128"},"modified":"2011-11-19T01:07:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T00:07:32","slug":"hot-dog-eating-contest-kings-head-and-bell-for-children-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5128","title":{"rendered":"Hot Dog Eating Contest @ Kings Head and Bell for Children in Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11111803.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Dog Eating Contest\" \/><br \/>\nThere were two teams &#8211; each supplied with ketchup bottles &#8211; at the start of the Kings Head and Bell pub&#8217;s hot dog eating contest &#8211; part of their weekend&#8217;s activities to raise funds for Children in Need.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11111801.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Dog Eating Contest\" \/><br \/>\nThe Landlord is seen here bringing out a few of the hot dogs. Two judges and the Landlord were there to ensure fair play.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11111802.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Dog Eating Contest\" \/><br \/>\nPlenty of tomato ketchup seemed a good tactic&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11111804.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Dog Eating Contest\" \/><br \/>\nThe tie round the forehead showed how serious some people took the contest &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11111805.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Dog Eating Contest\" \/><br \/>\nAfter a while the judges joined in helping the team they were watching to eat all the hot dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Finally it was the team who enlisted the most people who won the prize &#8211; a bottle of champagne.<\/p>\n<p>That prize was then donated and auctioned for Children in Need.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11111806.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Dog Eating Contest\" \/><br \/>\nHere are the judges with the couple who made the winning \u00a320 bid for the champagne &#8211; Ken and Cathy.<\/p>\n<p>By that stage a total of \u00a31500 had been raised by customers of the pub for Children in Need. I look forward to hearing the final total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were two teams &#8211; each supplied with ketchup bottles &#8211; at the start of the Kings Head and Bell pub&#8217;s hot dog eating contest &#8211; part of their weekend&#8217;s activities to raise funds for Children in Need. The Landlord is seen here bringing out a few of the hot dogs. Two judges and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-pubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}