{"id":11978,"date":"2020-03-28T20:06:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T01:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=11978"},"modified":"2020-04-11T04:19:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T09:19:05","slug":"since-i-didnt-die-when-i-got-electrocuted-i-won-a-darwin-award-honorable-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/since-i-didnt-die-when-i-got-electrocuted-i-won-a-darwin-award-honorable-mention\/","title":{"rendered":"Since I didn&#8217;t die when I got electrocuted,  I only qualified for a Darwin Awards honorable mention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-28-at-20.39.31-1024x647.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of Darwin Awards page\" class=\"wp-image-12213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-28-at-20.39.31-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-28-at-20.39.31-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-28-at-20.39.31-225x142.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-28-at-20.39.31-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-28-at-20.39.31-1536x970.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-28-at-20.39.31.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing I learned about the <a href=\"http:\/\/darwinawards.com\">Darwin Awards<\/a> after I sent in my story, is that only people who die while committing an exceedingly stupid act can win an award. Survivors like me only ever qualify for honorable mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I didn&#8217;t become late during my close flirtation with electrical current, I could only win an honorable mention, but still, that&#8217;s a bigger deal than you might think: 2204 people liked my story on the Darwin Awards website, which is featured on a page of its own. And it even ended up in one of the books published by site creator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wendynorthcutt\">Wendy Northcutt<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read my story <a href=\"https:\/\/darwinawards.com\/personal\/personal2002-26.html\">Eclectic Eccentric on darwinawards.com<\/a> and if you like it, please cast a vote and maybe also share my silly story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While you&#8217;re there, read other intriguing accounts of misadventure with tools, nature and devices of every type. Don&#8217;t feel bad if you&#8217;re moved to laugh at the crazy way people kill themselves. The brilliance of Wendy&#8217;s Darwin Awards is that they make it OK for us to laugh at human foibles and maybe even learn a thing or two about safety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I didn&#8217;t die when I got electrocuted, I won a Darwin Award honorable mention #p2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":12213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Since I didn't die when I got electrocuted, I won a Darwin Award honorable mention #p2 @wendynorthcutt @DarwinAwards","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[1484,1483,2755],"class_list":["post-11978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-art-culture","tag-darwin-awards","tag-electric","tag-kimi-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11978"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12367,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions\/12367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}