{"id":4259,"date":"2012-05-21T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2012-12-29T02:16:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T07:16:32","slug":"the-most-portrayed-literary-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-most-portrayed-literary-character\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Portrayed Literary Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052112_1229_TheMostPort1.jpg\" width=\"522\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Guinness World Records has awarded Sherlock Holmes with the honour of being the &#8220;most portrayed literary human character in Film and TV.&#8221; In giving him the award they highlight that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Holmes has been depicted on screen 254 times.<\/li>\n<li>Over 75 actors have played the character.<\/li>\n<li>The runner-up is Hamlet \u2013 who has been depicted 48 fewer times than Holmes.<\/li>\n<li>If you drop the &#8216;human&#8217; requirement from the award then Sherlock no longer comes out on top. Dracula wins by having been depicted on film and television 272 times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about why this record was created, how it relates to the London Olympics, and the records for longest marathon hug and largest parade of boats, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2012\/5\/sherlock-holmes-awarded-title-for-most-portrayed-literary-human-character-in-film-tv-41743\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2012\/5\/sherlock-holmes-awarded-title-for-most-portrayed-literary-human-character-in-film-tv-41743\/\">Guinness World Records<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5911728\/which-fictional-character-is-most-frequently-portrayed-on-screen\">io9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guinness World Records has awarded Sherlock Holmes with the honour of being the &#8220;most portrayed literary human character in Film and TV.&#8221; In giving him the award they highlight that: Holmes has been depicted on screen 254 times. Over 75 actors have played the character. The runner-up is Hamlet \u2013 who has been depicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/052112_1229_TheMostPort1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7463,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions\/7463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}