{"id":1737,"date":"2013-09-04T13:22:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T20:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2013-09-04T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T20:22:12","slug":"gulp-adventures-on-the-alimentary-canal-by-mary-roach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/2013\/09\/04\/gulp-adventures-on-the-alimentary-canal-by-mary-roach\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13615414-gulp\">Goodreads | Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach &#8211; Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find names for flavors and smells? Why doesn\u2019t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? We meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks\u2014or has the courage\u2014to ask. And we go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a bacteria transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via\u00a0Goodreads | Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach &#8211; Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find names for flavors and smells? Why doesn\u2019t the stomach digest itself? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/2013\/09\/04\/gulp-adventures-on-the-alimentary-canal-by-mary-roach\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-reads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.palomar.edu\/acarpenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}