{"id":994020,"date":"2022-02-16T18:32:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/watch-oregon-city-installs-37-foot-fork-believed-to-be-worlds-tallest\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T18:32:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:32:24","slug":"watch-oregon-city-installs-37-foot-fork-believed-to-be-worlds-tallest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/watch-oregon-city-installs-37-foot-fork-believed-to-be-worlds-tallest\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Oregon city installs 37-foot fork believed to be world&#8217;s tallest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Oregon-city-installs-37-foot-fork-believed-to-be-worlds-tallest.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"oHukzADFfzE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"World&#039;s largest fork hopeful arrives\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oHukzADFfzE?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\">Feb. 16 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> An Oregon city is seeking the Guinness World Record for the tallest fork after installing a 37-foot-tall utensil outside a new food cart plaza.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Fairview said the 37-foot fork, installed Tuesday outside the soon-to-open Fairview Food Plaza, is believed to be the tallest in the world, and officials will seek confirmation of the designation from Guinness World Records.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, the fork came about because we wanted something on the corner, whether it was a water tower or a windmill or some sort of piece that&#8217;s going to be on the corner, and then one of the design teams said, let&#8217;s just put a fork here and we&#8217;ll come back to it,&#8221; Mayor Brian Cooper told KATU-TV. &#8220;And over the course of a couple months, it just kind of stuck in the brain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And you can come up with an entire marketing scheme of &#8216;Take a left at the fork,&#8217; &#8216;The Fork in Fairview,'&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The current record holder for the world&#8217;s tallest fork stands at 35 feet tall in Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The Fairview Food Plaza, a public-private partnership between the Fairview Urban Renewal Agency, property owner Denise Arndt and Plaza operator Justin Hwang, is expected to open in April.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 16 (UPI) &#8212; An Oregon city is seeking the Guinness World Record for the tallest fork after installing a 37-foot-tall utensil outside a new food cart plaza. The city of Fairview said the 37-foot fork, installed Tuesday outside the soon-to-open Fairview Food Plaza, is believed to be the tallest in the world, and officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994020","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\/994020","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=994020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}