{"id":10004,"date":"2022-07-08T17:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T17:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2022\/07\/11\/furman-alumna-elizabeth-allen-makes-guinness-world-record\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:49:15","slug":"furman-alumna-elizabeth-allen-makes-guinness-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-alumna-elizabeth-allen-makes-guinness-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"FOX CAROLINA: Furman alumna, Elizabeth Allen, makes Guinness World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Furman University education alumna Elizabeth Allen &#8217;20 M&#8217;22, what started as tiny paper airplanes thrown in the direction of a classmate soon became an obsession to break a world record. Allen, a 3rd-grade teacher at Cherrydale Elementary, now holds the Guinness World Record for the longest chain crafted with Starburst candy wrappers. Her accomplishment was picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2730&amp;DateTime=7%2F6%2F2022+7%3A55%3A44+AM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">FOX Carolina News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/myrtlebeachsc.com\/furman-alumna-elizabeth-allen-makes-guinness-world-record\/\">Myrtle Beach SC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55963\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55963\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55963 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Elizabeth-Allen.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Allen \u201920 M\u201922 poses with her Guinness World Record-winning chain made of 10,000 Starburst wrappers.\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 780px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 780\/439;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Allen \u201920 M\u201922 poses with her Guinness World Record-winning chain made of 10,000 Starburst wrappers. \/ Credit: Blake Buehler \u201922<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Furman University education alumna Elizabeth Allen &#8217;20 M&#8217;22, what started as tiny paper airplanes thrown in the direction of a classmate soon became an obsession to break a world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":10005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,43,74,6],"tags":[1520,1501,1521],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-graduate-studies","category-graduate-studies-in-education","category-in-the-news","tag-candy-wrapper-chain","tag-guinness-world-records","tag-starburst-wrappers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}