{"id":1014907,"date":"2022-03-08T20:18:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T20:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/08\/watch-north-carolina-guinea-pig-performs-tricks-for-guinness-world-record\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T20:18:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T20:18:53","slug":"watch-north-carolina-guinea-pig-performs-tricks-for-guinness-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/08\/watch-north-carolina-guinea-pig-performs-tricks-for-guinness-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: North Carolina guinea pig performs tricks for Guinness World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/North-Carolina-guinea-pig-performs-tricks-for-Guinness-World-Record.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"PY7axLVWLG4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Triad guinea pig rescuer wards off pandemic blues with her little entourage\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PY7axLVWLG4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 8 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A North Carolina woman said her pet guinea pig unofficially set a Guinness World Record by performing more than 14 tricks in 1 minute.<\/p>\n<p>Gwen Ford said her guinea pig, Coco, attempted the world record for most tricks performed by a guinea pig in 1 minute.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ford said Guinness officials told her there is currently no record holder in the category, so the organization set a minimum goal of 14 tricks for setting the record.<\/p>\n<p>Ford said Coco surpassed the goal, and she is now awaiting word from Guinness World Records about whether her pet is a new record holder.<\/p>\n<p>Coco, who Ford adopted four years ago from a shelter, has earned nine titles in competitions and has about 70 tricks in his repertoire, Ford said. She said in a Facebook post that she decided to pursue the record because of Coco&#8217;s age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;ll likely retire from tricks now as he&#8217;s been gradually losing interest over the last 4 months,&#8221; Ford wrote. &#8220;I was really hoping he could fulfill this last accomplishment before he completely quit and he did!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 8 (UPI) &#8212; A North Carolina woman said her pet guinea pig unofficially set a Guinness World Record by performing more than 14 tricks in 1 minute. Gwen Ford said her guinea pig, Coco, attempted the world record for most tricks performed by a guinea pig in 1 minute. Ford said Guinness officials told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1014908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}