{"id":1224,"date":"2004-08-18T15:05:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T20:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2004-08-18T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T20:05:23","slug":"chinas-hairiest-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/chinas-hairiest-man\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Hairiest Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Yu Zhenhuan waits for an interview beside his hospital bed in Shanghai August 13, 2004. Yu, who is China&#8217;s hairiest man, has 96 percent of his body covered with hair. The current Guinness record holders &#8212; a pair of Mexican brothers &#8212; have a record of 98 percent hair cover. Yu underwent ear surgery in Shanghai last week to remove hair that caused him to lose part of his hearing. The hirsute 26-year-old Yu, who uses the name &#8216;woolboy&#8217; for his email, has hair all over his body, save the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet. He has an average of 41 hairs per 1 sq cm (.16 sq inch), a condition doctors term &#8216;atavism&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;ncid=1756&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/040818\/ids_photos_wl\/r1459394032.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Photo here: Yu Zhenhuan, China&#8217;s Hairiest Man<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yu Zhenhuan waits for an interview beside his hospital bed in Shanghai August 13, 2004. Yu, who is China&#8217;s hairiest man, has 96 percent of his body covered with hair. The current Guinness record holders &#8212; a pair of Mexican brothers &#8212; have a record of 98 percent hair cover. Yu underwent ear surgery in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}