{"id":166,"date":"2008-03-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.woodape.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/20\/like-tom-slick-we-just-want-to-know\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T06:00:00","slug":"like-tom-slick-we-just-want-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodape.org\/index.php\/like-tom-slick-we-just-want-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Tom Slick, We Just Want to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yDfKKQ4WSqA\"><i>&#8220;He won&#8217;t quit because you know there&#8217;s no such word as &#8216;fail&#8217; to Tom Slick.&#8221;<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To the generation growing up in the late sixties and early seventies, those words may evoke memories of the cartoon hero and his versatile Thunderbolt Greaseslapper, but they could just as easily have applied to the real life, but little known, Texas millionaire Tom Slick, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many interests pursued in his short but very adventurous life, Tom Slick sought to validate the existence of the sasquatch and the yeti. 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