{"id":43501,"date":"2025-04-15T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=43501"},"modified":"2025-04-15T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:25:10","slug":"parker-mccollums-weird-gum-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/04\/parker-mccollums-weird-gum-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker McCollum&#8217;s Weird Gum Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard the old wives&#8217; tale that if you swallow a piece of gum it will remain in your digestive tract for seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Parker McCollum is taking that science to a whole new level.<\/p>\n<p>He recently said in an interview with &#8220;CMT&#8221; that he has swallowed every piece of gum he&#8217;s ever eaten, and he seemed proud of it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One time I swallowed 46 in one sitting. True story. And feel great . . . Doctor says everything is good.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Mayo Clinic,\u00a0&#8220;If you swallow gum, it&#8217;s true that your body can&#8217;t digest it . . . But the gum doesn&#8217;t stay in your stomach. It moves relatively intact through your digestive system and is excreted in your stool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s a fun fact you might not have known: Parker McCollum has pooped out more gum than maybe any country singer ever.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIR8kPzyZwd\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parker McCollum Says He&#8217;s Swallowed Every Piece of Gum He&#8217;s Ever Eaten","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":43298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6196,2254],"class_list":["post-43501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-gum","tag-parker-mccollum"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 19:51:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/04\/parker-mccollums-weird-gum-habit\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43502,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43501\/revisions\/43502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}