{"id":150,"date":"2004-04-02T22:14:46","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T22:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2004-04-02T22:14:46","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T22:14:46","slug":"danger-around-every-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Danger around every corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my guilty pleasures is Dear Abby. There is one kind of letter I can&#8217;t stand though:<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Abby,<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was walking through the living room and saw the cover was off my box fan. I thought it would be fun to stick my head in the whirling blades. I ended up in the hospital with lacerations from my forehead to my chin. <\/p>\n<p>Abby, please tell your readers to make sure they keep covers over fan blades and to never, ever stick your face in a fan. <\/p>\n<p>Signed,<\/p>\n<p>Stuck my face in a fan and now I know better<\/p>\n<p>Dear Stuck,<\/p>\n<p>You are right. After reading your letter I immediately put covers back on all my fans. Hopefully, others can learn from your mishap. <\/p>\n<p>Readers, don&#8217;t stick forks in power outlets either. You may permanently damage your silverware. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my guilty pleasures is Dear Abby. There is one kind of letter I can&#8217;t stand though: Dear Abby, Yesterday I was walking through the living room and saw the cover was off my box fan. I thought it would be fun to stick my head in the whirling blades. I ended up in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Danger around every corner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}