{"id":28746,"date":"2015-09-05T00:15:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T00:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/worlds-shortest-man-dies-at-age-75\/"},"modified":"2015-09-05T00:15:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T00:15:28","slug":"worlds-shortest-man-dies-at-age-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/worlds-shortest-man-dies-at-age-75.html","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Shortest Man Dies At Age 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing only 1 feet 9.5 inches high and weighing 31 pounds, Chandra Bahadur Dangi was a shortest documented mature chairman on Earth. The local of Nepal <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">died Thursday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dangi was\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">suffering from pneumonia<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">traveled to American Samoa<\/a><span class=\"image-component image-component_with-pinterest image-component_with-microdata component\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/34edc_55ea06e31700009a015698b4.jpeg\" class=\"image-component__main-image\" alt=\"\" \/><span class=\"image-component__text image-component__text_below-image\"> <span class=\"image-component__author\">Credit: Prakash Mathema around Getty Images<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"image-component__pinterest\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-component__pinterest-button\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/34edc_4d8482c06a0e70ca6052bb201617e4f2-pinterest_icon.png\" alt=\"Share on Pinterest\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dangi will continue to reason a Guinness World Record for <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">shortest male ever<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">died during age 40 in 1997<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">for many of his life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Balawing, age 22, now earnings to a tip spot.<\/p>\n<p>In a matter on Thursday, Guinness World Records pronounced it was &#8220;<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">deeply saddened<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;GWR would like to demonstrate a frank and intense condolences to Mr. Dangi&#8217;s family in this formidable time,&#8221; a matter read. &#8220;He will be remembered perpetually as an iconic and unusual record holder.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-component image-component_with-pinterest image-component_with-microdata component\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/34edc_55ea0a391700009a015698bb.jpeg\" class=\"image-component__main-image\" alt=\"span class='image-component__caption' itemprop=captionChandra Bahadur Dangi met a world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen, in London in Nov 2014.\/span\" \/><span class=\"image-component__text image-component__text_below-image\"> <span class=\"image-component__author\">Credit: Peter Macdiarmid around Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"image-component__caption\">Chandra Bahadur Dangi met a world&#8217;s tallest man, Sultan Kosen, in London in Nov 2014.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"image-component__pinterest\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-component__pinterest-button\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/34edc_4d8482c06a0e70ca6052bb201617e4f2-pinterest_icon.png\" alt=\"Share on Pinterest\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Dangi trafficked to London, where he met with a world&#8217;s tallest vital man, 8-foot-3-inch\u00a0Sultan K\u00f6sen of Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">It&#8217;s been a lifelong dream to travel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dangi had a condition famous as former dwarfism, that means, distinct with many other forms of dwarfism, his skeleton and viscera were <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">proportionally smaller<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">unusually fit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Family crony Sujit Dilip, owners of India&#8217;s obvious Rambo Circus, told a Daily Mirror, &#8220;Today, a playground is flooded with tears during a detriment of a world&#8217;s smallest male &#8230; whom <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">we lovingly called Prince Chandra<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Also on HuffPost:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"slides\">\n<li class=\"hp-carousel-item no-pin\"> <img class=\"lazy\" alt=\"World's Shortest Man Met World's Shortest Woman\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"hp-carousel-item no-pin\"> <img class=\"lazy\" alt=\"World's Smallest Woman: Jyoti Amge\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"hp-carousel-item no-pin\"> <img class=\"lazy\" alt=\"World's Smallest Siblings: Brad And Bridgette Jordan\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"hp-carousel-item no-pin\"> <img class=\"lazy\" alt=\"World's Smallest Mom: Stacey Herald\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"hp-carousel-item no-pin\"> <img class=\"lazy\" alt=\"World's Shortest Man: Junrey Balawing\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"hp-carousel-item no-pin\"> <img class=\"lazy\" alt=\"World's Smallest Married Couple: Douglas Maistre Breger da Silva and Claudia Pereira Rocha\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"hp-carousel-item no-pin\"> <img class=\"lazy\" alt=\"World's Smallest Firefighter\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"hp-carousel-item no-pin\"> <img class=\"lazy\" alt=\"Jyoti Amge Being Interviewed\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"hp-carousel-item no-pin\"> <img class=\"lazy\" alt=\"Becoming The Shortest Woman\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"hp-carousel-item no-pin\"> <img class=\"lazy\" alt=\"Jyoti Amge Poses For Camera\" width=\"52\" height=\"52\" \/><\/li>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/c\/35496\/f\/677521\/s\/49963ec9\/sc\/28\/l\/0L0Shuffingtonpost0N0C20A150C0A90C0A40Cworlds0Eshortest0Eman0Edies0Echandra0Edangi0In0I80A91780A0Bhtml0Dutm0Ihp0Iref0Fhawaii0Gir0FHawaii\/story01.htm<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing only 1 feet 9.5 inches high and weighing 31 pounds, Chandra Bahadur Dangi was a shortest documented mature chairman on Earth. The local of Nepal died Thursday Dangi was\u00a0suffering from pneumoniatraveled to American Samoa Credit: Prakash Mathema around Getty Images Dangi will continue to reason a Guinness World Record for shortest male everdied during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-28746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-hawaii-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}