{"id":275774,"date":"2023-09-09T12:58:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T09:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/?p=275774"},"modified":"2023-09-09T12:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T09:58:58","slug":"lying-down-to-be-the-laziest-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/lying-down-to-be-the-laziest-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThey sleep to be the \u201dlaziest citizen\"!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an annual satirical competition in a resort town in northern Montenegro, seven contestants who broke the previous record are lying on cushions, vying for the coveted title of \u201cLaziest Citizen\u201d.<\/p>\n

Last year's competition, held in the resort town of Brezna, set a record of 117 hours lying down, but as this year's competition entered its 20th day on Thursday, the remaining competitors said they were determined to keep going.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all feel good, perfect, we have no health problems, they spoil us, all we have to do is lie down,\u201d said 2021 champion Dubravka Aksic, 38.<\/p>\n

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Participants lay inside a hut, as they participate in a satirical contest to mock a popular myth that labels Montenegrins as lazy people, in the village of Brezna, Pluzine, Montenegro, September 6, 2023. REUTERS\/Stevo Vasiljevic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Radonja Blagojevic, the organizer and owner of the facility, said the competition was started 12 years ago in this small Adriatic country to ridicule a popular myth labeling Montenegrins as lazy.<\/p>\n

He said the seven remaining competitors from the 21-man starting field have logged 463 hours so far.<\/p>\n

The rules state that standing or sitting is considered a violation and grounds for immediate disqualification, but competitors are allowed 10 minutes every eight hours to go to the restroom.<\/p>\n

Contestants can also read and use cell phones and laptops.<\/p>\n

First-timer Filip Knezevic, 23, from the northern town of Mojkovac, said he was confident of victory and the 1,000 euros (1,070 $) prize.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have everything we need here, the camaraderie is great, time passes quickly,\u201d he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karada\u011f’\u0131n kuzeyindeki bir tatil beldesinde her y\u0131l d\u00fczenlenen hiciv yar\u0131\u015fmas\u0131nda bir \u00f6nceki rekoru k\u0131ran yedi yar\u0131\u015fmac\u0131, minderlere uzanarak imrenilen “En Tembel Vatanda\u015f” unvan\u0131 i\u00e7in yar\u0131\u015f\u0131yor. Ge\u00e7en y\u0131l tatil k\u00f6y\u00fc Brezna’da d\u00fczenlenen yar\u0131\u015fmada yatarak 117 saatlik bir rekor k\u0131r\u0131lm\u0131\u015ft\u0131 ancak bu y\u0131lki yar\u0131\u015fma Per\u015fembe g\u00fcn\u00fc 20. g\u00fcne girerken, geri kalan yar\u0131\u015fmac\u0131lar devam etmeye kararl\u0131 olduklar\u0131n\u0131 s\u00f6ylediler. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-275774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-yasam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halkweb.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}