{"id":6168,"date":"2017-03-04T01:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T05:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=6168"},"modified":"2017-03-04T01:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T05:34:01","slug":"ive-never-had-a-bucket-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=6168","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;ve never had a bucket list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never had any desire to have a &#8220;bucket list,&#8221;, but this article caught my eye: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/shortcuts\/2017\/mar\/01\/the-99-year-old-who-threw-herself-in-prison-and-other-strange-bucket-list-requests\" target=\"_blank\">The 99-year-old who threw herself in prison \u2013 and other strange bucket list requests<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But this is the part that really intrigued me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last month, a teenage girl from Ohio with terminal leukemia got her wish to shoot someone with a Taser. Alyssa Elkins fired the electrified barbs into the back of Sgt Doug Bline of the Newark police department. \u201cI don\u2019t like inflicting pain on people, I didn\u2019t know it was going to be that painful,\u201d she said as the officer collapsed in a contorted heap. She then shot her uncle before calling it a day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait a minute. She got her wish to fire a Taser at somebody, found out that it was apparently more painful than she&#8217;d expected, and <em>then<\/em>, after discovering how painful it really was, she shot her uncle.<\/p>\n<p>That makes me wonder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;  <br \/>And, on a completely different subject, there&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dMK_npDG12Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F6168&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F6168&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never had any desire to have a &#8220;bucket list,&#8221;, but this article caught my eye: &#8220;The 99-year-old who threw herself in prison \u2013 and other strange bucket list requests.&#8221; But this is the part that really intrigued me: Last month, a teenage girl from Ohio with terminal leukemia got her wish to shoot someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6170,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions\/6170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}