{"id":1044,"date":"2008-04-12T07:03:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T14:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2008-04-12T07:03:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T14:03:26","slug":"darwin-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/12\/darwin-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/04\/waitingtobefried.jpg\" alt=\"Darwin at Work, waiting to be fried while taking a whiz\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Have you ever wondered who all those warning signs in the world are created to help? Well, my guess is that this guy needs them, badly. If you look closely, he&#8217;s got a cigarette in his left hand, so if the high voltage doesn&#8217;t do the trick, then eventually the cigarette will. And hopefully, he didn&#8217;t contribute to the gene pool before the process of natural selection does its work.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor those of you who are skeptical that electric current can travel through a stream of urine causing electrical shock, I encourage you to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/fansites\/mythbusters\/mythbusters.html\" target=\"_blank\" >MythBusters<\/a> who demonstrated that it is not only possible, but likely. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mythbustersresults.com\/episode14\" target=\"_blank\" >a handy reference<\/a> with the episode.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMakes you wonder when this guy will show up as a winner of the illustrious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darwinawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Darwin Award<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered who all those warning signs in the world are created to help? Well, my guess is that this guy needs them, badly. If you look closely, he&#8217;s got a cigarette in his left hand, so if the high voltage doesn&#8217;t do the trick, then eventually the cigarette will. And hopefully, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}