{"id":74255,"date":"2017-08-28T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T11:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74255"},"modified":"2017-08-28T07:42:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T11:42:38","slug":"never-underestimate-the-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74255","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Never underestimate the power . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . of human stupidity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For last week\u2019s eclipse, proper eye protection was a must. Well, it was a must if you wanted to see normally afterwards.\u00a0 Staring directly at the sun without eye protection for just a few seconds can cause retinal damage, even during a partial solar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>Still:\u00a0 despite the public warnings not to look at the eclipse without proper eye protection \u2013 or due to counterfeit merchandise \u2013 some &#8220;fine individuals&#8221; just didn\u2019t acquire proper eye protection beforehand.\u00a0 So a few such enterprising people without proper eyewear found a novel way to \u201cprotect\u201d their eyes during the eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>They used sunscreen. <em>On their eyeballs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2017\/08\/28\/health-professionals-report-cases-where-people-put-sunscreen-on-their-eyeballs-to-watch-eclipse.html\"><i>I\u2019m not joking.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reports have come from healthcare professionals in two different states of this abysmal idiocy. And yeah \u2013 one of the states was indeed the Granola State, California. (The other state where this was reported by a healthcare professional to have happened was Virginia.)<\/p>\n<p>(sigh)\u00a0 God must love fools; he made so many of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>(In case you&#8217;re wondering: yes, this article\u2019s split title\/intro was shamelessly stolen from a great writer &#8211; the late Robert A. Heinlein. It\u2019s one of his more famous quotes.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . of human stupidity.&#8221; For last week\u2019s eclipse, proper eye protection was a must. &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;Never underestimate the power . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74255\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Never underestimate the power . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,177,236,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-wtf","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}