{"id":15833,"date":"2024-10-31T23:59:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T23:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/hundreds-to-don-bed-sheets-for-most-ghosts-record-attempt\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T23:59:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T23:59:52","slug":"hundreds-to-don-bed-sheets-for-most-ghosts-record-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/hundreds-to-don-bed-sheets-for-most-ghosts-record-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds to don bed sheets for most ghosts record attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Hundreds of people have donned white bed sheets in an attempt to set a new world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as ghosts.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Organisers of the spectre-cular event in Dorchester hoped to beat the record of 560, which was set in 2017 by a school in Ireland.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The attempt fell short of its target, with 346 revellers joining a Halloween party with music and dancing in Brewery Square.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Another effort in Dorset town last year also failed, after rain <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-dorset-67240650\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">dampened spirits<!-- --><\/a>, with only 204 apparitions.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mercy School Mounthawk in Tralee set the world record in March 2017.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">An attempt, organised by Manchester City Council in 2022, also failed when bad weather put people off attending.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c1jrgnkd9dko\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people have donned white bed sheets in an attempt to set a new world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as ghosts. Organisers of the spectre-cular event in Dorchester hoped to beat the record of 560, which was set in 2017 by a school in Ireland. The attempt fell short of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5416,3333,3761,6498,796,1061,6497],"class_list":["post-15833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-attempt","tag-bed","tag-don","tag-ghosts","tag-hundreds","tag-record","tag-sheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15835,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833\/revisions\/15835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}