{"id":1022,"date":"2005-09-16T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T16:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2005\/09\/16\/tragic-mistake\/"},"modified":"2005-09-16T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T16:21:31","slug":"tragic-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/tragic-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed a headline in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/auto\/epaper\/editions\/friday\/news_34a2f684473b116a0086.html\">today&#8217;s Statesman<\/a> as I was waiting to get my morning caffeine dose. Apparently, someone in this year&#8217;s Hands On A Hard Body competition in Longview snapped during the competition, walked to a K-Mart across the street, threw a trash can through the front window, went to the sporting goods section, got a shotgun and some shells and proceeded to shoot himself in the head.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an unfortunate typo in the description of the contest, but I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s the Statesman or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-journal.com\/\">Longview News-Journal&#8217;s<\/a> fault or if it&#8217;s only in the online version.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this annual contest, contestants try to keep one hand on a new truck at a Nissan dealership in Longview for as long as possible. The winner gets the truck. Last year&#8217;s winner hung on for 117 consecutive hours. This was the contest&#8217;s 13th year.<\/p>\n<p>Rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are 24 competitors.\n<li>Contestants must live within 100 miles of the Longview area. <strong>\n<li>No gun chewing or nicotine products allowed.<\/strong>\n<li>No leaning, squatting, sitting or lying down.\n<li>5-minute breaks every hour. Every eight hours, there is a 15-minute break.<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> I guess I should&#8217;ve taken a screenshot, becuse they&#8217;ve fixed it. It was there. Really. I&#8217;m not that sick. No, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed a headline in today&#8217;s Statesman as I was waiting to get my morning caffeine dose. Apparently, someone in this year&#8217;s Hands On A Hard Body competition in Longview snapped during the competition, walked to a K-Mart across the street, threw a trash can through the front window, went to the sporting goods section, <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/tragic-mistake\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-gu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}