{"id":811,"date":"2016-01-03T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T04:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/03\/australia-is-obsessed-with-this-cricket-fan-who-devoured-an-entire-watermelon\/"},"modified":"2016-01-03T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T04:51:26","slug":"australia-is-obsessed-with-this-cricket-fan-who-devoured-an-entire-watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/03\/australia-is-obsessed-with-this-cricket-fan-who-devoured-an-entire-watermelon\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia is obsessed with this cricket fan who devoured an entire watermelon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The latest cult hero in Australia showed that country the meaning of determination when he devoured nearly an entire watermelon, skin and all, while watching a cricket game at a Melbourne stadium<\/p>\n

Dubbed “Watermelon boy” by his fans, Mitchell Shibecki skyrocketed to Internet stardom after he was caught on the big screen at Saturday’s Women’s Big Bash cricket match eating a whole watermelon.<\/p>\n

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See also: 15 people made famous by the Internet in 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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#WatermelonBoy<\/a> spotted at #WBBL01<\/a>! pic.twitter.com\/qBDrMiambE<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 TEN Sport (@tensporttv) January 2, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“I’ve never seen that before in my life,” an announcer for TEN Sports said before the boy shook the fruit heartily at the camera when he realized all eyes were on him Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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The latest cult hero in Australia showed that country the meaning of determination when he devoured nearly an entire watermelon, skin and all, while watching a cricket game at a Melbourne stadium Dubbed “Watermelon boy” by his fans, Mitchell Shibecki … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,1,45,266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-other","category-us-world","category-watermelon-boy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}