{"id":163,"date":"2011-01-04T19:13:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T19:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2011-01-04T19:13:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T19:13:02","slug":"can-you-give-examples-of-events-or-stories-with-an-ironic-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Can you give examples of events or stories with an ironic twist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;margin:5px;font-size:80%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"consumer product recalls\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3042\/2723904488_924f10a8be_m.jpg\" width=\"160\"\/><br \/> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26601145@N04\/2723904488\">Public Citizen<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Question by the_chief<\/i>: Can you give examples of events or stories with an ironic twist?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>examples:<br \/>\nIn 1974 the Consumer Product Safety Commission had to recall 80,000 of its own lapel buttons promoting &#8220;toy safety&#8221;, because the buttons had sharp edges, used lead paint, and had small clips that could be broken off and subsequently swallowed.<\/p>\n<p>When John Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, all of his shots initially missed the President; however a bullet ricocheted off the bullet-proof windows of the Presidential limousine and struck Reagan in the chest. Thus, the windows made to protect the President from gunfire were partially responsible for his being shot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by Schultzy235<\/i><br \/>I was watching a video on youtube about a kids eating contest and ironically a fat kid won<\/p>\n<p><strong>Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Public Citizen Question by the_chief: Can you give examples of events or stories with an ironic twist? examples: In 1974 the Consumer Product Safety Commission had to recall 80,000 of its own lapel buttons promoting &#8220;toy safety&#8221;, because the buttons had sharp edges, used lead paint, and had small clips that could be broken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[535,129,468,537,536,538],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recalls","tag-events","tag-examples","tag-give","tag-ironic","tag-stories","tag-twist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}