{"id":6809,"date":"2003-05-13T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-13T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/13\/6809\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T16:41:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T21:41:47","slug":"6809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/13\/6809\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Your Unlivable Life Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/FE2798A95F35830086256D2500188643?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Law+and+order%3A+Man+is+shot+after+attacking+officer+with+sword,+police+say\" target=\"new\">reports<\/a> (second item) that a man in a suburb of St. Louis became suicidal and armed himself with a sword.  However, lacking a <a href=\"http:\/\/the-tech.mit.edu\/Shakespeare\/cleopatra\/cleopatra.4.14.html\" target=\"new\">good instruction manual<\/a> for killing oneself with a sword, this gentleman drew the attention of neighbors, friends, family members, or the local busybody.  Said other, non-suicidal person called police, who arrived and shot the suicidal man when he brandished said sword at them.<\/p>\n<p>No, they didn&#8217;t kill him.  Now he&#8217;s going to prison for attempting to kill a police officer.  That should fix him right up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (second item) that a man in a suburb of St. Louis became suicidal and armed himself with a sword. However, lacking a good instruction manual for killing oneself with a sword, this gentleman drew the attention of neighbors, friends, family members, or the local busybody. Said other, non-suicidal person called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21201,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6809\/revisions\/21201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}