{"id":5608,"date":"2014-05-28T00:11:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T07:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5608"},"modified":"2014-05-29T10:21:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T17:21:21","slug":"when-buggers-just-wont-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/28\/when-buggers-just-wont-do\/","title":{"rendered":"When Boogers Just Won’t Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Norwegian Performance Artist Eats His Own Hip<\/h1>\n

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A\u00a0Norwegian artist named Alexander Selvik Wengshoel has kicked his art career into high gear with a stunt that\u2019s equal parts Chris Burden and Hannibal Lecter: He claims he ate his own hip. Born with a deformed hip that kept him in a wheelchair despite several surgical interventions, Wengshoel finally underwent a successful operation at age 21, which involved replacing his hip. Following the surgery, the performance artist, who is now 25, said he took the detached bone bit home, boiled it, and ate the meat along with a glass of wine and potato gratin, the\u00a0Independent\u00a0<\/span>reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got home, I sat in my living room and suddenly I had a whim that I should cook the meat,\u201d Wengshoel told Norway\u2019s\u00a0The Local<\/span>. \u201cI resolved to have this nice moment, with me and my hip bone. . . . It\u2019s not every day I will have a piece of human flesh which is mine and which is possible to eat. So I had a little taste and then I thought, \u2018That\u2019s really nice.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Shocking though this act of self-cannibalism may seem, Wengshoel says his meat actually tasted quite good, even a little exotic. \u201cIt had this flavor of wild sheep,\u201d he told\u00a0The Local<\/span>, \u201cif you take a sheep that goes in the mountains and eats mushrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from artnet.com Norwegian Performance Artist Eats His Own Hip Benjamin Sutton A\u00a0Norwegian artist named Alexander Selvik Wengshoel has kicked his art career into high gear with a stunt that\u2019s equal parts Chris Burden and Hannibal Lecter: He claims he ate his own hip. Born with a deformed hip that kept him in a wheelchair despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}