{"id":6486,"date":"2010-04-21T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=6486"},"modified":"2010-04-14T13:43:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:43:56","slug":"remember-euell-gibbons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/remember-euell-gibbons\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Euell Gibbons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Silk-Parachute.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6494\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Silk-Parachute.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Silk-Parachute.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Silk-Parachute.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>My favorite essay in John McPhee&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2245296\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>The Silk Parachute<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>is &#8220;My Life List.&#8221; McPhee talks about the weirdest things he&#8217;s ever eaten, and, in doing so, he describes an encounter he had with that icon of the 70&#8217;s, Euell Gibbons. He shared boiled dandelions and water mint tea (remember the Grape Nuts commercial?) with Euell.<\/p>\n<p>This \u00a0seems mighty tame compared to the weasel, lion, whale, grizzly bear and bee spit meals he had.<\/p>\n<p>McPhee&#8217;s great skill is to make any subject, no matter how arcane, fascinating. He supplies just the right detail and sets the scene and before you know it, you&#8217;re sucked in.<\/p>\n<p>In this series of essays written for the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|270140\" target=\"_blank\">New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, he often refers to feedback he received from legendary editor, Wallace Shawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite essay in John McPhee&#8217;s book, The Silk Parachute is &#8220;My Life List.&#8221; McPhee talks about the weirdest things he&#8217;s ever eaten, and, in doing so, he describes an encounter he had with that icon of the 70&#8217;s, Euell Gibbons. He shared boiled dandelions and water mint tea (remember<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/remember-euell-gibbons\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[1112,148,573],"class_list":["post-6486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-eating","tag-environment","tag-essays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1GC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6506,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions\/6506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}