{"id":1503,"date":"2003-07-24T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2003-07-24T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/darwin-awards\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:52:49","slug":"darwin-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/24\/darwin-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13988,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.afterhourspub.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260117152703\\\/http:\\\/\\\/afterhourspub.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 16:32:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 21:12:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 05:02:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 05:02:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13989,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.afterhourspub.com\\\/archives\\\/000702.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/afterhourspub.com\\\/archives\\\/000702.php&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13990,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.darwinawards.com\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/darwinawards.com\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13991,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0452283442\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312163417\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0452283442\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0452283442\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 21:12:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 21:12:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13992,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0452284015\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0452284015\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13993,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0525947736\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312163417\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0525947736\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0525947736\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 21:12:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 05:02:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 05:02:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterhourspub.com\/\" title=\"The After Hours Pub\">The After Hours Pub<\/a>, halfast posted a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterhourspub.com\/archives\/000702.php\" title=\"Darwin Awards\">Darwin Award winners<\/a>. I hadn&#8217;t read this list before, but it prompted me to head over to the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinawards.com\/index.html\" title=\"Darwin Awards\">Darwin Awards website<\/a> and browse through some of the stories.<\/p>\n<p>Man, some people scare me with their stupidity.<\/p>\n<p>However, I did end up with two more books in my Amazon wishlist: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0452283442\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Darwin Awards\">The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0452284015\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Darwin Awards II\">The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection<\/a>. You can even pre-order <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0525947736\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Darwin Awards III\">The Darwin Awards III: Survival of the Fittest<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, some people scare me with their stupidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}