{"id":573,"date":"2003-05-21T22:09:52","date_gmt":"2003-05-21T22:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/05\/21\/trees_dont_talk.html"},"modified":"2003-05-21T22:09:52","modified_gmt":"2003-05-21T22:09:52","slug":"trees_dont_talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/05\/21\/trees_dont_talk.html","title":{"rendered":"trees don&#8217;t talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At an outdoor party this weekend, a very drunk boy decided to climb a tree.  Luckily, he came down alive and only passed out when the distance between him and the ground was simply his height.  It was a scary moment, as people have died doing similarly stupid things at these kinds of parties&#8230; on the dance floor, in front of everyone.  Terrifying and a reminder of why all drug use must be taken seriously (including alcohol).<\/p>\n<p>On a mailing list discussing this incident, a mantra for outdoor parties was set in place: &#8220;the tree is not telling you to climb it but the water is telling you to drink it.&#8221;  This made me smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an outdoor party this weekend, a very drunk boy decided to climb a tree. Luckily, he came down alive and only passed out when the distance between him and the ground was simply his height. It was a scary moment, as people have died doing similarly stupid things at these kinds of parties&#8230; on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}