{"id":89767,"date":"2014-06-05T14:22:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T10:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=89767"},"modified":"2014-06-05T14:22:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T10:22:49","slug":"thousands-in-nepal-hug-trees-in-world-record-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=89767","title":{"rendered":"Thousands in Nepal Hug Trees in World Record Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/World-Records-Most-people-hugging-trees-Katmandu-Nepal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-89763\" alt=\" \u056e\u0561\u057c \u0563\u0580\u056f\u0565\u056c\u0578\u0582 \u0561\u0577\u056d\u0561\u0580\u0570\u056b \u057c\u0565\u056f\u0578\u0580\u0564 \" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/World-Records-Most-people-hugging-trees-Katmandu-Nepal.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/World-Records-Most-people-hugging-trees-Katmandu-Nepal.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/World-Records-Most-people-hugging-trees-Katmandu-Nepal-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/World-Records-Most-people-hugging-trees-Katmandu-Nepal-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000 people gathered in Nepal&#8217;s capital on Thursday in a bid to set a world record for the largest tree hug.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament members, students, office workers and even Buddhist monks took part in the attempt, gathering at a park on the outskirts of Katmandu. They said they were trying to set the record to celebrate World Environment Day by spreading awareness about the importance of trees.<\/p>\n<p>The previous Guinness World Record for most people hugging trees simultaneously was 936 people in Portland, Oregon, last July.<\/p>\n<p>Participants on Thursday held trees for two minutes as volunteers beat drums at the National Martyrs and Peace Park, on the northeast edge of Katmandu.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the participants were students in their school uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; More than 2,000 people gathered in Nepal&#8217;s capital on Thursday in a bid to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":89763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[10856],"class_list":["post-89767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-hug-trees-in-world-record-bid","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}