{"id":13243,"date":"2012-01-09T12:30:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T19:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/?p=13243"},"modified":"2012-01-09T10:24:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T17:24:35","slug":"this-is-why-you-dont-bungee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/this-is-why-you-dont-bungee\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Why You Don\u2019t Bungee Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I imagine that if our ancestors saw us tying rope to our feet all willy-nilly and then jumping off cliffs and bouncing around over rivers and jagged rocks they&#8217;d be pretty appalled. Like, &#8220;you do this and yet WE&#8217;RE the ones that died of cholera?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sure, you could say that advances in modern technology have made bungee jumping pretty safe, and that the thrill it brings borders on a drug high, and that pushing the limits is what makes our species courageous and progressive. But then you hear about Erin Luang Worth, whose bungee cord broke during a New Years Eve jump over the Zambesi River in Africa. She plummeted over 350 feet, and then had to swim through SHARK-INFESTED WATERS to get back to shore. She says, \u201cIt was quite scary because a couple of times the rope actually got caught on some rocks or debris. I actually had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught on to make it to the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OH YES, MADAME. QUITE SCARY. <em>QUITE. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3hoJfi9kPh0?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-13243\" data-postid=\"13243\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-13243 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I imagine that if our ancestors saw us tying rope to our feet all willy-nilly and then jumping off cliffs and bouncing around over rivers and jagged rocks they&#8217;d be pretty appalled. Like, &#8220;you do this and yet WE&#8217;RE the ones that died of cholera?&#8221; Sure, you could say that advances in modern technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[7690,3028,7688,7689,2404],"class_list":["post-13243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booty-call-u-videos","tag-bungee-jump-gone-wrong","tag-crazy-video","tag-erin-luang-worth","tag-womans-bungee-cord-snaps-over-shark-infested-waters","tag-wtf","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13250,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions\/13250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}