{"id":431,"date":"2009-07-22T00:33:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T04:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/?p=431"},"modified":"2009-07-22T00:33:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T04:33:29","slug":"boy-drank-gasoline-to-copy-his-tv-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/boy-drank-gasoline-to-copy-his-tv-heroes","title":{"rendered":"Boy drank gasoline to copy his TV heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-YEAR-OLD boy drank gasoline for five years to obtain &#8220;energy&#8221; &#8211; just as his idols &#8220;Bumble Bee&#8221; or &#8220;Optimus Prime&#8221; do in &#8220;Transformers,&#8221; the Sichuan-based West China Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>After the boy, in Yibin City, southwest Sichuan Province, had watched the animated TV series, he began to drink gasoline to become a &#8220;valiant fighter&#8221; like &#8220;Optimus Prime,&#8221; his father told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He began to drink gasoline five years ago, when we found he liked smelling lighter fuel,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanghaidaily.com\/sp\/article\/2009\/200907\/20090720\/article_407995.htm\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-YEAR-OLD boy drank gasoline for five years to obtain &#8220;energy&#8221; &#8211; just as his idols &#8220;Bumble Bee&#8221; or &#8220;Optimus Prime&#8221; do in &#8220;Transformers,&#8221; the Sichuan-based West China Metropolis Daily reported yesterday. After the boy, in Yibin City, southwest Sichuan Province, had watched the animated TV series, he began to drink gasoline to become a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-is-like-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}