{"id":7768,"date":"2012-09-22T10:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T14:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=7768"},"modified":"2012-09-22T10:07:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T14:07:52","slug":"watch-adam-troy-castro-eat-a-painful-pizza-at-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/22\/watch-adam-troy-castro-eat-a-painful-pizza-at-bricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Adam-Troy Castro eat a painful pizza at Bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, September 2, 2012, Adam-Troy Castro, lover of spicy food and author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gustav-Gloom-People-Taker-1\/dp\/0448458330\/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt\"><em>Gustav Gloom<\/em> <\/a>novels, slipped away from the Chicago Worldcon and traveled to <a href=\"http:\/\/brickschicago.com\/BricksChicago\/home\/index.html\">Bricks<\/a>, where he attempted to eat a painful pizza, which consists of spicy pepperoni, purple onion, fresh jalapeno, garlic, tomato sauce, mozzarella, and lots and <em>!LOTS!<\/em> of hot sauce. <\/p>\n<p>I was one of his sadistic friends who journeyed to witness (but not to partake in) this act of masochism. But just because you weren&#8217;t there, doesn&#8217;t mean you have to miss the madness. <\/p>\n<p>Check out Adam&#8217;s agony below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xQiTfORSw3A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If the poor guy&#8217;s pain proves to be too much for you to watch, just skip ahead to 15:50 to learn how it all turns out and see him sum up his ordeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, September 2, 2012, Adam-Troy Castro, lover of spicy food and author of the Gustav Gloom novels, slipped away from the Chicago Worldcon and traveled to Bricks, where he attempted to eat a painful pizza, which consists of spicy pepperoni, purple onion, fresh jalapeno, garlic, tomato sauce, mozzarella, and lots and !LOTS! of hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,49,10,16],"class_list":["post-7768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adam-troy-castro","tag-food","tag-video","tag-worldcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}