{"id":9269,"date":"2010-09-30T23:31:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T22:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=9269"},"modified":"2010-09-30T23:31:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T22:31:35","slug":"bacon-kevin-bacon-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/09\/30\/bacon-kevin-bacon-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacon Kevin Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2010-09\/29\/bacon-kevin-bacon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9270\" title=\"Kevin Bacon statue made out of Bacon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Kevin-Bacon-Statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A US company specialising in bacon products recently commissioned an artist to make a bust of actor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kevin_Bacon\">Kevin Bacon<\/a> &#8230;made out of bacon.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Mike Lahue carved a styrofoam bust of the actor and then used bacon bits covered by glue and several coats of lacquer as soft, cooked bacon would rot too easily.<\/p>\n<p>The final result is called &#8216;Bacon Kevin Bacon&#8217; and is being auctioned on eBay in support a nonprofit organization which helps families cope with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=270639833575\">the current bid<\/a> is $353.00.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5651532\/bacon-kevin-bacon-statue\">Gizmodo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2010-09\/29\/bacon-kevin-bacon\">Wired UK<\/a> with more details<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kevin_Bacon\">Kevin Bacon<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=270639833575\">Bid on the item at eBay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US company specialising in bacon products recently commissioned an artist to create a life-sized bust of actor Kevin Bacon &#8230;made out of bacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[670],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}