{"id":23955,"date":"2016-08-23T08:01:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/homeless-awareness-campaign-breaks-fist-bumping-record\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T08:01:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:01:23","slug":"homeless-awareness-campaign-breaks-fist-bumping-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/homeless-awareness-campaign-breaks-fist-bumping-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless awareness campaign breaks fist-bumping record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> Three hundred people in Alaska looking to raise awareness of homelessness are the new world record holders in fist-bumping.<\/p>\n<p>KTVA-TV reported a Guinness World Records representative verified each of the fist bumps passed along a line of registered participants in a fenced-off area Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>An improper fist bump could have meant disqualification.<\/p>\n<p>The United Way of Anchorage organized the event. Mayor Ethan Berkowitz, Alaska First Lady Donna Walker and people who work with homeless youth were among those who joined in.<\/p>\n<p>United Way of Anchorage president Michele Brown said fist-bumping was chosen to represent a strong affirmation of what the community stands for.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record was set by a chain of 250 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Three hundred people in Alaska looking to raise awareness of homelessness are the new world record holders in fist-bumping. KTVA-TV reported a Guinness World Records representative verified each of the fist bumps passed along a line of registered participants in a fenced-off area Saturday. An improper fist bump could have meant disqualification. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23955"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}