{"id":223,"date":"2007-05-09T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2007-05-09T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T06:20:00","slug":"sen-grooms-holds-25-year-record-chaw-spittin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/sen-grooms-holds-25-year-record-chaw-spittin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Grooms holds 25 year record chaw spittin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp3.blogger.com\/_8IreV7QyEO8\/RkFc50AhR0I\/AAAAAAAAALs\/YupBcuFFMvc\/s1600-h\/beech-nut.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:hand;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp3.blogger.com\/_8IreV7QyEO8\/RkFc50AhR0I\/AAAAAAAAALs\/YupBcuFFMvc\/s400\/beech-nut.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Officials at the annual &#8220;Hellhole Festival&#8221; in Berkeley County have discontinued the tobacco spitting contest.  Interestingly, the 1982 record was set by Sen. Larry Grooms (R-Berkeley).  25 years ago he hurled a Beachnut wad 27 feet to break the record of Richard Campsen, brother of Sen. Chip Campsen (R-Charleston).  Members of the William Wallace Caucus (Verdin, Grooms, Campsen, Bryant) go way back; who would have thunk?  Personally, I never cared for Beech-nut, I was a Red Man man, but I have also learned much about the low country redneck.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp3.blogger.com\/_8IreV7QyEO8\/RkFcJ0AhRzI\/AAAAAAAAALk\/74gACewQapk\/s1600-h\/redman.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;cursor:hand;margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp3.blogger.com\/_8IreV7QyEO8\/RkFcJ0AhRzI\/AAAAAAAAALk\/74gACewQapk\/s200\/redman.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials at the annual &#8220;Hellhole Festival&#8221; in Berkeley County have discontinued the tobacco spitting contest. Interestingly, the 1982 record was set by Sen. Larry Grooms (R-Berkeley). 25 years ago he hurled a Beachnut wad 27 feet to break the record of Richard Campsen, brother of Sen. Chip Campsen (R-Charleston). Members of the William Wallace Caucus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-3B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}