{"id":1459,"date":"2005-11-07T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/11\/07\/hey-kids-do-not-play-catch-with-live-ammunition\/"},"modified":"2005-11-07T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-08T02:33:00","slug":"hey-kids-do-not-play-catch-with-live-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/11\/07\/hey-kids-do-not-play-catch-with-live-ammunition\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey kids!  Do not play catch with live ammunition."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to sound callous, but after the headline <a href=\"http:\/\/go.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;storyID=10186858&amp;src=rss\/oddlyEnoughNews\">Three die playing catch with grenade<\/a>, Reuters actually says: &#8220;It was not clear why the grenade exploded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hello?  <strong>Because it&#8217;s a fucking grenade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The more pertinent question is, <em>why<\/em> were two people who should have known better <em>playing catch with a hand grenade?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m nominating them for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinawards.com\/\">Darwin Award<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to sound callous, but after the headline Three die playing catch with grenade, Reuters actually says: &#8220;It was not clear why the grenade exploded.&#8221; Hello? Because it&#8217;s a fucking grenade. The more pertinent question is, why were two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}