{"id":1809,"date":"2010-03-10T16:20:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T21:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2010-03-10T16:49:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T21:49:08","slug":"brocks-record-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/03\/brocks-record-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock&#8217;s record challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rutgers University didn\u2019t quite beat Brock\u2019s air guitar world record, but it did raise more than $4,000 for music and art programs.<\/p>\n<p>The New Brunswick, N.J. university attempted on March 5 to bust Brock\u2019s record of 1,436 people simultaneously playing air guitar. Brock students achieved the Guinness World Record at a Metric O-Week concert in September.<\/p>\n<p>Rutgers students raised money for the New Brunswick school district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill I say this is a failure? Absolutely not,\u201d Alexandria Intravatola, Vice President of Spirit and Special Events with the university\u2019s programming association, told the Rutgers <em>Daily Targum<\/em>. \u201cThis event was still successful for many people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quick links:<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytargum.com\/news\/u-rocks-out-despite-world-record-loss-1.2183384\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Daily Targum<\/em> \u2014 U. rocks out despite world record loss<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2010\/03\/08\/Air-guitar-event-raised-4000-for-schools\/UPI-74541268080449\/\" target=\"_blank\">Air guitar event raised $4,000 for schools \u2014 UPI.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rutgers University attempted this month to break Brock&#8217;s record of 1,436 people simultaneously playing air guitar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}