{"id":30937,"date":"2017-07-26T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T22:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30937"},"modified":"2017-07-26T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T22:06:44","slug":"a-legend-to-last-a-teatime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=30937","title":{"rendered":"A Legend to Last a Teatime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How different would 20th-century culture have been if the Rutles had not discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.wordpress.com\/prompts\/tea\/\">tea<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the perspective of fifty years beyond Dirk McQuickly&#x27;s interview in which he extolled the virtues of tea, it&#x27;s almost impossible to grasp just how controversial his remarks were. \u00a0Today, tea is mundane, commonplace. \u00a0I myself have had several cups of tea today. \u00a0Yet, McQuickly&#x27;s June 1967 interview about tea seems caused an uproar at the time. \u00a0Tea, it seems, was something that people simply <em>didn&#x27;t talk about<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, I can go to the grocery story &#8212; Weis, Giant, Food Lion, Wegman&#x27;s &#8212; and I&#x27;m confronted with dozens of different kinds of tea. \u00a0There are people who like Earl Grey or Irish Breakfast. \u00a0They can keep those. \u00a0I&#x27;ll take a nice herbal tea, and I&#x27;m especially fond of the Celestial Seasonings Honey Vanilla Tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would this have happened with McQuickly talking on ITV about tea? \u00a0Would there have been such a variety of tea in stores? \u00a0Who can say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The controversy over the Rutles and tea, of course, died down. \u00a0By the end of 1967 it was all forgotten. There were other controversial things for the Rutles to be criticized for, like <em>Tragical History Tour<\/em>. \u00a0Yet, when we sit down to a cup of tea, hot or iced, we all owe McQuickly and the Rutles a thanks for normalizing the consumption of tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4600,566],"class_list":["post-30937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-daily-post","tag-the-rutles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}