{"id":6480,"date":"2023-10-06T18:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T18:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=6480"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:14:46","slug":"opinion-gallons-of-gravy-17-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/opinion-gallons-of-gravy-17-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Gallons of gravy, 17 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6480\" class=\"elementor elementor-6480\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-639897b2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"639897b2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b0d6a0f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1b0d6a0f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A rather auspicious day occurred last Friday. Seventeen years ago I published my first \u201cGravy by the Slice,\u201d column.<\/p><p>Before that, we ran an original column written by former staff writer Cal Tatum. A good, solid reporter, he lived up in the foothills. He commuted to Madera every day from way up above Oakhurst.<\/p><p>His column was called \u201cLooking for a Bar.\u201d That was his favorite punchline, \u201cI was looking for a bar when I found this job.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather auspicious day occurred last Friday. Seventeen years ago I published my first \u201cGravy by the Slice,\u201d column. Before that, we ran an original column written by former staff writer Cal Tatum. A good, solid reporter, he lived up in the foothills. He commuted to Madera every day from way up above Oakhurst. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,32],"class_list":["post-6480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-business","tag-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}