{"id":14528,"date":"2024-07-18T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=14528"},"modified":"2024-07-18T12:04:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:04:50","slug":"16-pound-giant-baby-made-headlines-in-1983-but-wait-till-you-see-him-today-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=14528","title":{"rendered":"16-Pound Giant Baby Made Headlines In 1983, But Wait Till You See Him Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1983, Patricia Clarke gave birth to Kevin Robert Clark, a massive baby weighing over 16 pounds. He was the largest infant born at Community Memorial Hospital and possibly all of New Jersey at the time. Despite his unusual size, Kevin was healthy and became an instant celebrity, appearing on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d and \u201cGood Morning America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kevin\u2019s height continued to make headlines as he grew to 5\u20197\u2033 by age 12 and 6\u20195\u2033 by junior high. He joked about his height, saying, \u201cI like to joke that I\u2019m 5-foot-21. When people ask if I play basketball, I ask them if they play miniature golf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=14529\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14418 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Readmore-1-1-1-1-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1983, Patricia Clarke gave birth to Kevin Robert Clark, a massive baby weighing over 16 pounds. He was the largest infant born at Community Memorial Hospital and possibly all of New Jersey at the time. Despite his unusual size, Kevin was healthy and became an instant celebrity, appearing on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d and \u201cGood&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=14528\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;16-Pound Giant Baby Made Headlines In 1983, But Wait Till You See Him Today&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14532,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14528\/revisions\/14532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}