{"id":9022,"date":"2013-02-01T13:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T13:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/01\/the-ultimate-hiccup-cure\/"},"modified":"2013-02-01T13:55:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T13:55:41","slug":"the-ultimate-hiccup-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/01\/the-ultimate-hiccup-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Hiccup Cure"},"content":{"rendered":"

A panacea<\/a> that cures all your earthly ills in a manner most definitive.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Life in the fast lane often leads to a quick exit from life's freeway.  You may recall Terry Kath, guitarist for the band Chicago.  In 1978, while drunk, he shot himself in the head with a 'unloaded' gun.  At first he had been fooling with a .38 revolver.  Then he picked up a semi-automatic 9 mm pistol, removed the magazine, pointed it at his head, spoke his last words, "Don't worry, it isn't loaded," and pulled the trigger.  Unfortunately for his head, there was a round in the chamber.  Or that is one way the story goes.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Such inadvertent exits are easily avoided by exceptionless observation of three rules:  Never point a gun at something you do not want to destroy.  Treat every gun as if   loaded, whether loaded or not.  Never mix alcohol and gunpowder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps I should add a fourth: Never mix dummy rounds with live rounds. Variant<\/em>: Dummies should stay clear of guns, loaded or unloaded, and ammo, live or dummy.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A panacea that cures all your earthly ills in a manner most definitive. Life in the fast lane often leads to a quick exit from life's freeway.  You may recall Terry Kath, guitarist for the band Chicago.  In 1978, while drunk, he shot himself in the head with a 'unloaded' gun.  At first he had … Continue reading “The Ultimate Hiccup Cure”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022","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=9022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}