{"id":172,"date":"2019-10-10T13:34:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T18:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:32:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:32:16","slug":"kesey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/kesey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Kesey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kesey\u2019s Garage Sale<\/strong>, 1973<br> signed by Kesey in graffiti style. Viking Press, New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/strong>, 1962<br>Viking Press, New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While a writing student at Stanford University, Ken Kesey undertook paid psychological experiments with mescaline and LSD. He also began working the night shift as an attendant at a psychiatric hospital. These experiences came together in his first novel, <em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest<\/em>, which explored insidious ways society represses nonconformity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the novel\u2019s success, Kesey began throwing parties that brought together different social groups (Beats such as Allen Ginsberg, Hell\u2019s Angels, and academics), often under the influence of (then-legal) hallucinogens. These \u201cAcid Tests,\u201d as he called them, also featured a young rock band called the Grateful Dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neal Cassady met Kesey in 1962 and became an integral part of Kesey\u2019s drug-fueled group of \u201cMerry Pranksters,\u201d immortalized in Tom Wolfe\u2019s book <em>Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test<\/em>. When Kesey and the Pranksters embarked on a cross-country road trip in a psychedelic painted school bus, Cassady became the bus driver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Garage Sale<\/em> is a freewheeling collection of Kesey\u2019s writings and illustrations, with additional contributions by Ginsberg and Cassady among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Kesey\u2019s Garage Sale, 1973 signed by Kesey in graffiti style. Viking Press, New York [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest, 1962Viking Press, New York While a writing student at Stanford University, Ken Kesey undertook paid psychological experiments with mescaline and LSD. He also began working the night shift as an attendant at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}