{"id":1040218,"date":"2022-03-31T00:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T00:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/31\/look-illinois-students-create-worlds-largest-paper-snowflake\/"},"modified":"2022-03-31T00:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T00:02:31","slug":"look-illinois-students-create-worlds-largest-paper-snowflake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/31\/look-illinois-students-create-worlds-largest-paper-snowflake\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Illinois students create world&#039;s largest paper snowflake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Illinois-students-create-worlds-largest-paper-snowflake.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 30 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A group of Northern Illinois University students unofficially broke a Guinness World Record by creating a massive paper snowflake measuring 44 feet and 6 inches.<\/p>\n<p>The advanced photography students, from NIU&#8217;s School of Art and Design, folded the paper and cut it into a snowflake on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The resulting paper snowflake measured 44 feet and 6 inches, surpassing the current record of 20 feet and 1\/2 inch, which was set in 2019 by Christa Hanson of Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Labatte, associate professor and head of the photography department, said it took the students about 10 hours to create the snowflake.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence from the attempt is now being submitted to Guinness World Records for official verification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 30 (UPI) &#8212; A group of Northern Illinois University students unofficially broke a Guinness World Record by creating a massive paper snowflake measuring 44 feet and 6 inches. The advanced photography students, from NIU&#8217;s School of Art and Design, folded the paper and cut it into a snowflake on Tuesday. Advertisement The resulting paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1040219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040218","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\/1040218","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=1040218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}