{"id":934,"date":"2009-04-04T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2009-04-04T07:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T05:07:00","slug":"the-shot-heard-round-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Shot&#8221; Heard &#8216;Round the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday Alex had some of his friends over.&nbsp; We were all having a nice time hanging out, even if they were making a night of it whilst I was cutting the even short because I had to work on Saturday (it&#8217;s quarter close, so no games and we have to take work seriously).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, during the night (and after a few drinks), I had the bright idea to make &#8220;Kiss of Death&#8221; shots.&nbsp; Without going into details, let&#8217;s just say that this shot was my un-doing during a trip to Canada about 12 years ago.&nbsp; The consequences of drinking 3 of those shots was so severe that I still have a reaction whenever I think about it.&nbsp; So of course, 12 years older and only a little wiser, I drink this shot last night.&nbsp; So naturally it put me down the way tranquilisers put down a horse.&nbsp; But I am not sure it is the shot itself as much as the psychological baggage attached with it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I woke up fit for fight today, but it was really strange to have that shot again.&nbsp; I think it will be another 12 years before I try it again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday Alex had some of his friends over.&nbsp; We were all having a nice time hanging out, even if they were making a night of it whilst I was cutting the even short because I had to work on Saturday (it&#8217;s quarter close, so no games and we have to take work seriously). Anyway, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=934\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8220;Shot&#8221; Heard &#8216;Round the World<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}