{"id":378012,"date":"2025-08-27T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378012\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:02:17","slug":"man-holds-record-thanks-to-guinness-world-record-book-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378012\/","title":{"rendered":"Man holds record thanks to Guinness World Record book collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A man who holds two Guinness World Records thanks to his love of the award&#8217;s annuals said he never thought he would make it into the book himself.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martyn Tovey, from Radstock in Somerset, got his first Guinness World Record book as a school prize in 1968, aged 11. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His mum went on to get him a new edition every year for Christmas and he now has 816 annuals and 3,089 pieces of memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His collection has secured him two records in the 70th anniversary edition for 2025 &#8211; for the largest collection of Guinness World Record memorabilia and the largest collection of its annuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who holds two Guinness World Records thanks to his love of the award&#8217;s annuals said he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-378012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115101574495414172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}