{"id":535337,"date":"2026-07-20T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535337\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:35:09","slug":"nearly-3000-on-isle-of-man-turn-out-to-set-pilates-class-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535337\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 3,000 on Isle of Man turn out to set Pilates class record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;World record or not, it&#8217;s still such a huge event and will be iconic for years to come,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Storey said the day felt &#8220;huge&#8221;, not just because of the numbers, but because Pilates was returning to the place where its founder refined the practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many attendees admitted they had little idea of the island&#8217;s connection to Pilates before hearing about the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dylan Pycroft, doing Pilates for the first time, said: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t even know it was based on an island.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Langstaff added that she had &#8220;no clue&#8221; about the history until recently, and learning of a plaque at Knockaloe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;World record or not, it&#8217;s still such a huge event and will be iconic for years to come,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-535337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535337","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=535337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}