{"id":2743,"date":"2019-08-16T12:31:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T12:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2019-08-16T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T12:57:59","slug":"stuck-on-bigfoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/stuck-on-bigfoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck on Bigfoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">My story “Devotion” in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Frida-Dreams-Other-Unnerving-Disruptions\/dp\/1732709718\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Frida+sex+drams&qid=1565957750&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frida Sex Dreams<\/a> tells the story of two bigfoot hunters, one a true believer and the other a skeptic secretly in love with his hunting companion.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2691\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2691\" src=\"http:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bigfoot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bigfoot.jpg 729w, https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bigfoot-300x422.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bigfoot-600x844.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bigfoot-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bigfoot-728x1024.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Bigfoot” linocut by Theodore Carter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">I love bigfoot stories, from the fictional, historical accounts, to modern day T.V. shows and documentaries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The pervasiveness of the myth interests me most.\u00a0 Whether or not the creature exists hardly matters anymore. Bigfoot is a part of our shared history. This idea is explained best by the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bigfoot-Legend-Joshua-Blu-Buhs\/dp\/0226079805\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=9W5WH3B58HNK&keywords=bigfoot+the+life+and+times+of+a+legend&qid=1565955865&s=gateway&sprefix=bigfoot%3A+the+life+an%2Caps%2C117&sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you know Sir Edmund Hillary once claimed to have seen yeti tracks? Later, he went on a yeti-hunting expedition and became convinced the creature did not exist. Nevertheless, we have this great photo of him holding a bigfoot drawing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2745\" style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2745\" src=\"http:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sir-Edmund-Hillary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sir-Edmund-Hillary.jpg 500w, https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sir-Edmund-Hillary-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sir Edmund Hillary holding an artist’s rendition of a yeti. (<a href=\"http:\/\/teara.govt.nz\/en\/photograph\/28440\/yeti-expedition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The United States Department of State issued <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4090520\/us-government-hunt-yeti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yeti hunting guidelines<\/a> in 1959. I’m not sure whether or not they’ve been updated in the past several decades, but if you do see a yeti, these guidelines might still be helpful.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2746\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2746\" src=\"http:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/yeti-hunting-guidelins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/yeti-hunting-guidelins.jpg 800w, https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/yeti-hunting-guidelins-300x393.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/yeti-hunting-guidelins-600x787.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/yeti-hunting-guidelins-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/yeti-hunting-guidelins-768x1007.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/yeti-hunting-guidelins-781x1024.jpg 781w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Department of State Yeti Guidelines (<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4090520\/us-government-hunt-yeti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time.com<\/a>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a 2002 interview, Jane Goodall also stated that she believes in Bigfoot. Scoot ahead to the 45 second mark.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jane Goodall on Instinct | Blank on Blank\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3y4ZT0aj7OE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Another favorite reference point for me is the bigfoot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northamericanbigfoot.com\/2010\/01\/bigfoot-grammar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grammatical style guide<\/a> which has helped me out several times. The plural is “bigfoots”.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the myth of the wild man persists and periodically pulls me down Google-guided rabbit holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My story “Devotion” in Frida Sex Dreams tells the story of two bigfoot hunters, one a true believer and the other a skeptic secretly in love with his hunting companion. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,74],"tags":[160,514,11,482,515,362],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-fiction-2","tag-art","tag-bigfoot","tag-fiction","tag-frida-sex-dreams","tag-linocut","tag-short-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/patterson-photo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorecarter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}