{"id":260,"date":"2015-01-01T14:03:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frees.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2015-01-02T10:20:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:20:02","slug":"new-years-safety-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frees.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Safety Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another new year, and another of the inevitable news stories about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baynews9.com\/content\/news\/baynews9\/news\/article.html\/content\/news\/articles\/bn9\/2015\/1\/1\/woman_struck_by_cele.html\" target=\"_blank\">someone getting hit by a stray celebratory bullet<\/a>. I wrote some time ago about Diego Duran, a 12-year-old boy who was severely injured in this manner. This time it was a woman hit in the leg, fortunately not a serious injury. Since it seems that some people simply cannot resist the urge to make loud noises on New Year&#8217;s Eve, and apparently cannot afford firecrackers; for these geniuses the only logical course of action is to randomly fire bullets into the air.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of helpfulness, I offer the following safety tip for those who must celebrate in this manner:<\/p>\n<p>Before firing your weapon to welcome in the new year, carefully place the muzzle of the gun in your mouth. This will insure that the bullet will end up in a place where it can do very little harm.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome, as always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another new year, and another of the inevitable news stories about someone getting hit by a stray celebratory bullet. I wrote some time ago about Diego Duran, a 12-year-old boy who was severely injured in this manner. This time it was a woman hit in the leg, fortunately not a serious injury. Since it seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikes_rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}