{"id":893,"date":"2011-06-27T14:20:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2012-10-07T21:19:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T01:19:29","slug":"playing-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/27\/playing-with-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was giving some advice to a friend on how to get his blog started. One tip I gave him was to update frequently so he could keep the content \u201cfresh\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah,\u00a0 like I do.<\/p>\n<p>So, figured I\u2019d better put something out here.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reaching way back in archives for this story.<\/p>\n<p>When I was young I loved to play with fire. Dad called me the little \u2018firebug\u2019. He also whooped my ass more times than I can count for starting fires.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bed, in the trash can, outside in the barn \u2013 no place was safe from me.<\/p>\n<p>On a positive note I never hurt or destroyed anything (thank god).<\/p>\n<p>One of things I used to do \u2013 I\u2019d get a lit match and mom\u2019s Perma-net \u00a0hairspray (single pump ). \u00a0When I would spray it over the match it would make a neat little \u2018fire cloud\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>I was totally fascinated by this.<\/p>\n<p>One day (and I don\u2019t know why) I sat down in the chair and put the bottle in the floor between my feet. I could see perfectly in the bottle (looked like I was praying). I lit a match and dropped it in the bottle.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think happened?<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is \u201cTHANK GOD\u201d that hairspray and gasoline have the same type of combustible properties. Only the vapor burns. Other wise when that 4 foot flame that shot up and out of the bottle and totally engulfed my head could have done a lot more damage than just singeing my eyebrows and part of my hair.<\/p>\n<p>My fascination with fire at that point in time had \u2018worn\u2019 off and I was quickly running around the house putting up matches and hairspray.<\/p>\n<p>To my utter surprise that when mom walked in the door she knew exactly what I had been doing. Well not exactly but she was pretty damn close in the fact that it dealt with fire.<\/p>\n<p>After my spanking and I went to the bedroom completely dumbfounded on the fact \u2013 how did she know?<\/p>\n<p>Passing the bathroom on the way I glanced in the mirror to see that I just didn\u2019t singe my eyebrows \u2013 \u00a0I burned them completely off plus a large portion of my hair.<\/p>\n<p>Mom didn\u2019t have to punishment with a spanking &#8211; walking around with out eyebrows is one of the worst punishments in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was giving some advice to a friend on how to get his blog started. One tip I gave him was to update frequently so he could keep the content \u201cfresh\u201d. Yeah,\u00a0 like I do. So, figured I\u2019d better put something out here. I\u2019m reaching way back in archives for this story. When I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidbits","tag-tidbits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonesnap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}