{"id":2636,"date":"2025-05-21T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/french-town-breaks-world-record-with-gathering-of-over-3000-smurfs\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:07:13","slug":"french-town-breaks-world-record-with-gathering-of-over-3000-smurfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/french-town-breaks-world-record-with-gathering-of-over-3000-smurfs\/","title":{"rendered":"French town breaks world record with gathering of over 3,000 Smurfs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-21 12:07:12<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A small French town has broken the world record for the largest gathering of people dressed up as Smurfs.<BR><br \/>\nLanderneau, a town in Western France with a population of 16,000, has succeeded at the third try in its attempt to take the unique record from Lauchringen in Germany &#8211; which had brought together 2,762 Smurfs in 2019.<BR><br \/>\nThe French town set a new benchmark last weekend as 3,076 people assembled clad in blue outfits topped with white hats and the singing of &#8220;smurfy songs&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nLanderneau&#8217;s mayor Patrick Leclerc dressed up in Smurf attire and claimed that the event &#8220;brings people together and gives them something else to think about than the times we&#8217;re living in&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nPascal Soun, the head of the association behind the gathering, said that it &#8220;allows people to have fun and enter an imaginary world for a few hours&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nThe Smurfs were grateful to have good weather this time around after last year&#8217;s record attempt was scuppered by heavy rain that put many off attending.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-21 12:07:12 A small French town has broken the world record for the largest gathering of people dressed up as Smurfs. Landerneau, a town in Western France with a population&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}