{"id":79,"date":"2014-02-03T00:42:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-02-03T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T00:42:10","slug":"nekturalselection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"#NekturalSelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t drink at all often, and when I do it&#8217;s Cognac or wine, so it&#8217;s a good thing I&#8217;m not the type to be involved in this &#8216;neck nomination&#8217; thing. That said, if I did choose to &#8216;neck&#8217; a bottle of Cognac, I&#8217;d be disappointed if I were branded anything better than a fool.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8216;hash tag&#8217; would appear to be the only difference between a reckless criminal drunkenly getting them self killed, and a tragedy where peer pressure leads to the death of an innocent victim.<br \/>\nPerhaps I&#8217;m being insensitive here, but I don&#8217;t understand why we&#8217;re forced to pretend that anyone is a &#8216;victim&#8217; of a craze where people choose to drink an irresponsible amount of alcohol purely because they were told to by a friend using a social network.\u00a0And yet, Facebook&#8217;s morally superior (read &#8216;Facebook users&#8217;) are crying out to put an end to this terror.<\/p>\n<p>As with many things the media likes, &#8216;NekNomination&#8217; would appear to merely be a symptom of a more serious problem. In this case that problem is irresponsibility. If someone suggests you drink poison for fun, let&#8217;s not pretend it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s fault but your own if you do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t drink at all often, and when I do it&#8217;s Cognac or wine, so it&#8217;s a good thing I&#8217;m not the type to be involved in this &#8216;neck nomination&#8217; thing. That said, if I did choose to &#8216;neck&#8217; a bottle of Cognac, I&#8217;d be disappointed if I were branded anything better than a fool. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/?p=79\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;#NekturalSelection&#8221;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tminuswizard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}