{"id":3648,"date":"2023-12-04T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2023-12-03T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T20:27:50","slug":"merry-xmas-please-beware-of-suicide-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/12\/merry-xmas-please-beware-of-suicide-cables\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Xmas! Please beware of &#8220;suicide cables&#8221;!&#x1f384;&#x1f50c;&#x1f645;&#x200d;&#x2640;&#xfe0f;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8216;Tis the season to hang your Xmas lights\u2014and, for many people, to hang one strand backwards and instead of pulling it down, head to the hardware store in search of an &#8220;adapter&#8221; that is colloquially referred to as a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gender_of_connectors_and_fasteners#Safety\">suicide cable<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong><em>DO NOT DO THIS!<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not kidding around. 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I&#8217;m not kidding around. If you don&#8217;t kill yourself with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/12\/merry-xmas-please-beware-of-suicide-cables\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merry Xmas! Please beware of &#8220;suicide cables&#8221;!&#x1f384;&#x1f50c;&#x1f645;&#x200d;&#x2640;&#xfe0f;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[77,904,572,119,238],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/111523314223850826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3656,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions\/3656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}