{"id":130288,"date":"2025-11-11T22:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/130288\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:45:07","slug":"melbourne-to-attempt-world-record-with-an-ac-dc-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/130288\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne to attempt world record with an AC\/DC twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be an ambitious attempt in Melbourne today to break a world record for the most bagpipers ever playing at one time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Organisers are hoping AC\/DC&#8217;s iconic &#8220;It&#8217;s a Long Way to the Top&#8221; will see bagpipers flock to Federation Square to overtake the current world record, which stands at 333 pipers and is held by Bulgaria.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Campbell Wilson, Senior Pipe Major of the City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band\u00a0Producer: Rob Kelly\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be an ambitious attempt in Melbourne today to break a world record for the most bagpipers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58959,89960,58962,89958,156,157,111,139,69,89959,89957,82877],"class_list":["post-130288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-acdc","tag-bag-pipes","tag-bagpipes","tag-campbell-wilson","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pipe-band","tag-rn-breakfast","tag-sally-sara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}