{"id":738054,"date":"2022-01-06T19:06:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T19:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/225-13-pound-ball-of-human-hair-breaks-guinness-world-record\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:06:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T19:06:59","slug":"225-13-pound-ball-of-human-hair-breaks-guinness-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/225-13-pound-ball-of-human-hair-breaks-guinness-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"225.13-pound ball of human hair breaks Guinness World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/22513-pound-ball-of-human-hair-breaks-Guinness-World-Record.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"B13MO6WN4Qw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Largest Human Hair Ball - Guinness World Records\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B13MO6WN4Qw?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\">Jan. 6 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A ball of human hair started by an Ohio salon owner before being turned over to Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not! broke a Guinness World Record when it grew to 225.13 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Warden, owner of the Blockers salon in Cambridge, said his son inspired him to start &#8220;Hoss&#8221; the hairball using clippings from his customers, and the ball grew until it was large enough to be featured by Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not!\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From there, it was possibly going to go into a museum and it was pretty much going to end there,&#8221; Warden told Guinness World Records.<\/p>\n<p>The story of Hoss wasn&#8217;t over, however, as Ripley&#8217;s took the ball to Orlando Comic Con and asked attendees to donate their own hair clippings to help the ball grow to break the Guinness World Record.<\/p>\n<p>Hoss was officially weighed in December and certified at 225.13 pounds, breaking the record of 167 pounds set by Missouri barber Henry Coffer in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It actually has changed my life,&#8221; Warden said. &#8220;I did it because of the love for my children and my future grandchildren, and just to show that you know, if you have a crazy idea, don&#8217;t worry about what people are thinking, just do it.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 6 (UPI) &#8212; A ball of human hair started by an Ohio salon owner before being turned over to Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not! broke a Guinness World Record when it grew to 225.13 pounds. Steve Warden, owner of the Blockers salon in Cambridge, said his son inspired him to start &#8220;Hoss&#8221; the hairball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738054","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\/738054","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=738054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}