{"id":462,"date":"2015-01-08T20:11:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2021-08-22T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T08:34:23","slug":"guinness-record-book-rejection-email-from-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Guinness Megasalad Record Book Rejection email from 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I made a megasalad in 2001 with 363 different plants (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=206\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=206<\/a>) I approached Guinness to claim a world record. \u00a0They were not interested and I accidentally found the rejection email today (from 10th October 2001). Their reply: &#8220;Unfortunately, we would not be interested in a record for the most diverse salad. I recommend that you choose a salad of some particular variety and attempt the largest salad of its kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After this, \u00a0I was glad that I&#8217;d been refused as the Guinness Records represent greed and an inorganic product. I tried half seriously to find an organic brewery that would be interested in starting a record book of records with a sustainable message&#8230;..still looking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[gview file=&#8221;http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GUINNESS-REJECTION-10th-October-2001.pdf&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I made a megasalad in 2001 with 363 different plants (see \u00a0http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=206) I approached Guinness to claim a world record. \u00a0They were not interested and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,15,10,17,11,14,13,5,16,12,7],"tags":[1532],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annuals","category-bushes","category-climbers","category-edimentals","category-food","category-forest-gardening","category-herbs","category-invasive-plants","category-perennials","category-root-crops","category-shrub","category-trees","tag-guinness-record"],"views":6305,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29446,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/29446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}