{"id":5374,"date":"2012-08-17T08:18:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2012-08-17T08:23:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:23:18","slug":"a-tiny-meditation-on-davy-crockets-two-hundred-twenty-sixth-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2012\/08\/a-tiny-meditation-on-davy-crockets-two-hundred-twenty-sixth-birthday.html","title":{"rendered":"A Tiny Meditation on Davy Crocket’s Two Hundred & Twenty-Sixth Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\nI see that Davy Crocket<\/a> was born on this day in 1786.<\/p>\n

A hero of my childhood in the 1950\u2019s, a generation that actually wore those coonskin hats sold in support of a popular television series. Fortunately no photographic evidence of this survives. In my case. Found tons of embarrassing pictures from my generation on the web\u2026<\/p>\n

Of course the real person was vastly more complicated, darker and more interesting than the figure portrayed by Fess Parker, who I admit is still largely the figure I see when I think of the late congressman, frontiersman & fighter at the Alamo.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Alamo, I rather enjoy the idea of the revisionist although highly disputed version that as a politician as much as a fighter, he in fact surrendered at the end of the battle, only to be killed at Santa Anna\u2019s order.(John Wayne\u2019s Davy never ever cut it for me.)<\/p>\n

Playing off this Billy Bob Thornton\u2019s Davy at his death has in part supplanted Fess in my memory, creating a weird amalgam, I admit\u2026<\/p>\n