{"id":757,"date":"2012-08-12T02:31:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2012-08-09T00:32:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T06:32:27","slug":"japan-ukulele-ensemble-crowned-worlds-largest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/12\/japan-ukulele-ensemble-crowned-worlds-largest\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan ukulele ensemble crowned world&#8217;s largest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/images\/size\/x\/2012\/07\/photo_1343494533633-1-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000 musicians strummed ukuleles in Yokohama on Saturday to set a new world record for the largest ever ensemble of the Hawaiian guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Their effort was recognized by Guinness World Records officials who listened to them play \u201cAloha Mahalo A Hui Ho\u201d, a song written by Hawaiian-born former sumo wrestler Konishiki, in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The ensemble consisted of 2,134 people, eclipsing the previous largest ensemble in Sweden in August last year, which was made up of 1,547 players.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese performance was part of Ukulele Picnic Week which also featured hula dancing. <\/p>\n<p>Photo by AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2,000 musicians strummed ukuleles in Yokohama on Saturday to set a new world record for the largest ever ensemble of the Hawaiian guitar. Their effort was recognized by Guinness World Records officials who listened to them play \u201cAloha Mahalo A Hui Ho\u201d, a song written by Hawaiian-born former sumo wrestler Konishiki, in Yokohama, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}