{"id":178,"date":"2004-03-11T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2004\/03\/11\/the-torture-king\/index.php"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"the-torture-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2004\/03\/11\/the-torture-king\/index.php","title":{"rendered":"the torture king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>tonight, joey and i went to go see the torture king.  he is a guy who does a circus sideshow type of performance.  the performance was really really cool. he did some seriously crazy shit.  it was especially cool because it was in a *tiny* theater&#8230; one that was only big enough for like 20 people max.  so that way all the tricks were performed right in front of your face, and a lot of the time he even walked up and down the isles doing it right next to you.  that way you could tell he wasn&#8217;t just faking it from far away.<\/p>\n<p>some of the stuff he did was:<\/p>\n<p>breathe\/eat fire<br \/>\neat glass light bulb shards<br \/>\nlay on a bed of broken bottle shards while having someone jump up and down on his chest<br \/>\nlay on a bed of nails while 4 large guys stood on him<br \/>\nhave someone use a sledgehammer to break a cinder block on his chest while he is laying on nails<br \/>\nlick red hot iron<\/p>\n<p>and for his final trick, he put three metal skewers through himself.  one through his forearm, one through his bicep, and one through his chin.  it was fucking nuts!!!<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mindandmatter.net\/sys-tmpl\/nss-folder\/zamorapainnegationphotos\/TK%20Skewer%20Beckett.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\"><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n-v<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tonight, joey and i went to go see the torture king. he is a guy who does a circus sideshow type of performance. the performance was really really cool. he did some seriously crazy shit. it was especially cool because it was in a *tiny* theater&#8230; one that was only big enough for like 20 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2004\/03\/11\/the-torture-king\/index.php\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the torture king&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}