{"id":8447,"date":"2022-12-28T14:37:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/hes-having-the-time-of-his-life-how-tariq-the-corn-kid-embraced-global-fame-and-broccoli\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:37:43","slug":"hes-having-the-time-of-his-life-how-tariq-the-corn-kid-embraced-global-fame-and-broccoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/hes-having-the-time-of-his-life-how-tariq-the-corn-kid-embraced-global-fame-and-broccoli\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He\u2019s having the time of his life!\u2019 How Tariq the Corn Kid embraced global fame \u2013 and broccoli"},"content":{"rendered":"

The seven-year-old\u2019s deep love of sweetcorn made him a viral sensation. But how do you top meeting Michelle Obama and starring on The Drew Barrymore Show?<\/p>\n

It was the height of summer when seven-year-old Tariq declared: \u201cFor me \u2026 I really like corn\u201d \u2013 and promptly became an internet sensation. His video interview with Julian Shapiro-Barnum, host of web series Recess Therapy<\/a>, went viral, as his description of corn as \u201ca big lump with knobs\u201d and general enthusiasm for the vegetable racked up views around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you like about corn?\u201d asks Shapiro-Barnum in the video, which was shot at Smorgasburg, a weekly food festival in Prospect Park, New York. \u201cEver since I was told that corn was real, it tasted good,\u201d says a gap-toothed Tariq, seemingly bemused by the sheer existence of corn. \u201cBut when I tried it with butter, everything changed! \u2026 I can\u2019t imagine a more beautiful thing! It\u2019s corn!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe seven-year-old\u2019s deep love of sweetcorn made him a viral sensation. But how do you top meeting Michelle Obama and starring on The Drew Barrymore Show?
\nIt was the height of summer when seven-year-old Tariq declared: \u201cFor me \u2026 I really like corn\u201d \u2013 and promptly became an internet sensation. His video interview with Julian Shapiro-Barnum, host of web series Recess Therapy, went viral, as his description of corn as \u201ca big lump with knobs\u201d and general enthusiasm for the vegetable racked up views around the world.
\n\u201cWhat do you like about corn?\u201d asks Shapiro-Barnum in the video, which was shot at Smorgasburg, a weekly food festival in Prospect Park, New York. \u201cEver since I was told that corn was real, it tasted good,\u201d says a gap-toothed Tariq, seemingly bemused by the sheer existence of corn. \u201cBut when I tried it with butter, everything changed! \u2026 I can\u2019t imagine a more beautiful thing! It\u2019s corn!\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The seven-year-old\u2019s deep love of sweetcorn made him a viral sensation. But how do you top meeting Michelle Obama and starring on The Drew Barrymore Show? It was the height of summer when seven-year-old Tariq declared: \u201cFor me \u2026 I really like corn\u201d \u2013 and promptly became an internet sensation. His video interview with Julian …<\/p>\n

\u2018He\u2019s having the time of his life!\u2019 How Tariq the Corn Kid embraced global fame \u2013 and broccoli<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}