{"id":4260,"date":"2009-11-13T12:22:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T12:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/11\/13\/hair-todaygone-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:49:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:49:15","slug":"hair-todaygone-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/13\/hair-todaygone-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair Today\u2026Gone Tomorrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>\u2018Ironman\u2019 Manjit smashes world record with hair-raising attempt<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"232\" height=\"213\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ManjitSingh_232x180.jpg\"\/>LEICESTER\u2019S very own \u2018Ironman\u2019 Manjit Singh, has gabbed himself a Guinness World Record after pulling a seven-ton bus with his hair through London\u2019s Battersea Park.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 59-year-old celebrated Guinness World Record Day in style after pulling the bus a phenomenal 21.2 metres. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The feat was even more remarkable considering the bus was attached via a clamp to his thick ponytail. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Leicester security consultant admitted \u201cit was painful, but worth it.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Manjit\u2019s victory was sweeter following a failed attempt two years ago to pull a double-decker bus with the ears. But disappointment then drove the 59-year-old on. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>After the event he said: &#8220;It was painful, but it was worth it. I could only think about my legs and head and keeping on going to set a record, to go as far as I could.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I will never be discouraged by defeat, because I know that success can be waiting around the next corner,&#8221; he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;The only way to get there is to try again and stay positive.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Ironman\u2019 Manjit smashes world record with hair-raising attempt LEICESTER\u2019S very own \u2018Ironman\u2019 Manjit Singh, has gabbed himself a Guinness World Record after pulling a seven-ton bus with his hair through London\u2019s Battersea Park. &#13; The 59-year-old celebrated Guinness World Record Day in style after pulling the bus a phenomenal 21.2 metres. &#13; The feat was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}