{"id":12302,"date":"2010-07-04T19:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=12302"},"modified":"2010-07-04T19:11:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T23:11:05","slug":"ex-hot-dog-eating-champ-kobayashi-arrested-in-new-york-on-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/04\/ex-hot-dog-eating-champ-kobayashi-arrested-in-new-york-on-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Hot Dog Eating Champ Takeru Kobayashi arrested in New York on Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>By JQ Magazine<\/em><\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/em><\/a> (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page<\/em> here<\/em><\/a> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.<\/em><\/p>\n

Say what you will about former hot dog eating champ Takeru Kobayashi, he\u2019s no chicken.<\/p>\n

The six-time winner of the Nathan\u2019s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest<\/a>\u00a0was busted at the 95th edition of the annual event Sunday after attempting to storm the stage following the fourth win in a row by his American archrival Joey Chestnut. In an AP video<\/a>, the Japan-born Kobayashi, clad in a \u201cFree Kobi\u201d T-shirt, is dragged away and handcuffed by multiple NYPD officers to the shouts in the crowd of \u201cU.S.A.! U.S.A.!\u201d while his interpreter Maggie James, wearing the same T-shirt, says frantically, \u201cThey weren\u2019t giving him his freedom. It was unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n

As reported yesterday<\/a>, Kobayashi officially blogged his intent to drop out of the competition after reaching an impasse over an exclusivity contract with Major League Eating<\/a>, the sanctioning body of the Nathan\u2019s event and other food-related contests. Public opinion Kobayashi, nicknamed \u201cThe Tsunami,\u201d\u00a0was divided between his announcement and the event, with some dubbing him a sore loser and coward (he had previously groused over an arthritic jaw before losing to Chestnut for the first time in 2007), and others applauding his decision to remain a free agent.<\/p>\n

Read the full\u00a0article <\/em>here<\/a><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By JQ Magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories. Say what you will about former hot dog eating champ Takeru Kobayashi, he\u2019s no chicken. The six-time winner of the Nathan\u2019s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest\u00a0was busted at the 95th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3cq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12302"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12315,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12302\/revisions\/12315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}