{"id":188,"date":"2008-07-10T02:28:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T10:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-09-23T20:48:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T04:48:26","slug":"and-now-and-exceptionally-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"And, now, an <em>exceptionally<\/em> bad idea&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-left: 2em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizarremag.com\/weird_world\/body_world\/7173\/zombie-boy.html\"><q>Zombie Boy<\/q>, written by Jack Ruby Murray, with photos by Neville Elder, in <cite>Bizarre<\/cite><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">Rick is turning himself into a zombie. So far, more than 24 hours of tattoos &mdash; costing over \u00a34,075 Canadian &mdash; have got him halfway there and made him a minor celebrity on the internet, where people can\u2019t decide if he\u2019s a body modification visionary or mentally ill sicko.<\/blockquote><\/div> <p>(I guess that <cite>Bizarre<\/cite> has confused the Canadian dollar with a Canadian pound of some sort, and thinks that the Internet is the only internet.  In any case, this story came to my attention by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/i-was-zombie.html\">an entry at <span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">the Horrors of It All<\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zombie Boy, written by Jack Ruby Murray, with photos by Neville Elder, in Bizarre Rick is turning himself into a zombie. So far, more than 24 hours of tattoos &mdash; costing over \u00a34,075 Canadian &mdash; have got him halfway there and made him a minor celebrity on the internet, where people can\u2019t decide if he\u2019s [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,4],"tags":[280,285,281,282,283,284],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public","tag-body-modification","tag-canadians","tag-life-choice","tag-mental-illness","tag-tattoos","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}