{"id":23490,"date":"2016-02-25T01:59:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T01:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/man-with-world-s-largest-feet-receives-welcome\/"},"modified":"2016-02-25T01:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T01:58:39","slug":"man-with-world-s-largest-feet-receives-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/man-with-world-s-largest-feet-receives-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with world’s largest feet receives welcome gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Finding comfortable shoes can be a challenge even for those with average-shaped feet. But it’s virtually impossible for the Venezuelan man who holds the record for the world’s largest feet.}<\/p>\n

So it is hard to overstate just how welcome the gift was Jeison Rodriguez received on Wednesday: four pairs of size-26 shoes.<\/p>\n

The donation from Georg Wessels \u2014 a German shoemaker who specialises in making irregular-sized shoes \u2014 included boots, sneakers, clogs and sandals.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been making shoes for the world’s tallest people for almost 40 years and I do it for free,” Wessels said in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n

The businessman says he has donated some 500 pairs of shoes.<\/p>\n

“I never stop to think how much these shoes cost because they’re gifts,” he said.<\/p>\n

The Guinness Book of World Records recognised Rodriguez, 20, as having the world’s largest feet in 2014. His right foot measures 15.8 inches (40.1 centimetres) and his left 15.6 inches.<\/p>\n

Although Rodriguez and Wessels do not speak a common language, they have kept in touch since the German first gave him three pairs of shoes three years ago.<\/p>\n

“Jeison was so very pleased. It was incredible,” said Wessels, who was contacted at the time by relatives of Rodriguez living in Germany.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez is also Venezuela’s tallest man at 7 feet three inches (2.21 metres).<\/p>\n

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{Finding comfortable shoes can be a challenge even for those with average-shaped feet. But it’s virtually impossible for the Venezuelan man who holds the record for the world’s largest feet.} So it is hard to overstate just how welcome the gift was Jeison Rodriguez received on Wednesday: four pairs of size-26 shoes. The donation from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23490"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23490"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}