{"id":146,"date":"2006-07-28T02:07:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T07:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/2006\/07\/28\/ipod-turns-out-it-can-save-your-life\/"},"modified":"2020-05-07T15:31:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T20:31:46","slug":"ipod-turns-out-it-can-save-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/2006\/07\/28\/ipod-turns-out-it-can-save-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod: turns out it can save your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old story, but worth a mention.  This 17-year-old was struck by lightning and has burn marks tracing where he was wearing the iPod.   The <a title=\"Teenager stuck by lightning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/search\/ci_4016385\">Denver Post article<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" title=\"iPod burn\" alt=\"iPod burn\" src=\"\/images\/ipodburn.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One Boing Boing reader even beleived the iPod bypasses the current from his head thus saving his life.  So maybe the iPod isn&#8217;t so bad after all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Just kidding.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><br \/>\n[via <a title=\"Boing Boing link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/07\/06\/lightning_burns_dude.html\">Boing Boing<\/a> and <a title=\"Edgadget link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/07\/07\/ipod-equipped-teen-struck-by-lightning\/\">Endgadget<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old story, but worth a mention. This 17-year-old was struck by lightning and has burn marks tracing where he was wearing the iPod. The Denver Post article. One Boing Boing reader even beleived the iPod bypasses the current from his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}