{"id":11536,"date":"2010-06-08T13:29:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T13:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/08\/famous-last-words-dont-worry-it-isnt-loaded\/"},"modified":"2010-06-08T13:29:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T13:29:48","slug":"famous-last-words-dont-worry-it-isnt-loaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/08\/famous-last-words-dont-worry-it-isnt-loaded\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Last Words: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Worry, It Isn&#8217;t Loaded&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Life in the fast lane often leads to a quick exit from life&#39;s freeway.&#0160; You may recall Terry Kath, guitarist for the band Chicago.&#0160; In 1978, while drunk, he shot himself in the head with a &#39;unloaded&#39; gun.&#0160; At first he had been fooling with a .38 revolver.&#0160; Then he picked up a semi-automatic 9 mm pistol, removed the magazine, pointed it at his head, spoke his last words, and pulled the trigger.&#0160; Unfortunately for his head, there was a round in the chamber.&#0160; Or that is one way the story goes.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Such inadvertent exits are easily avoided&#0160;by exceptionless observation of three rules:&#0160; Never point a gun at something you do not want to destroy.&#0160;&#0160;Treat every&#0160;gun as if&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;loaded, whether loaded or not.&#0160; Never mix alcohol and gunpowder.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life in the fast lane often leads to a quick exit from life&#39;s freeway.&#0160; You may recall Terry Kath, guitarist for the band Chicago.&#0160; In 1978, while drunk, he shot himself in the head with a &#39;unloaded&#39; gun.&#0160; At first he had been fooling with a .38 revolver.&#0160; Then he picked up a semi-automatic 9 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/08\/famous-last-words-dont-worry-it-isnt-loaded\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Famous Last Words: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Worry, It Isn&#8217;t Loaded&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}