{"id":6449,"date":"2024-03-11T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:44:09","slug":"fans-who-froze-themselves-to-watch-a-match-rewarded-by-having-to-get-their-frostbitten-limbs-amputated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/fans-who-froze-themselves-to-watch-a-match-rewarded-by-having-to-get-their-frostbitten-limbs-amputated\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans who froze themselves to watch a match rewarded by having to get their frostbitten limbs amputated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are crazy about sports. In India its cricket, US it&#8217;s football, UK is rugby and Brazil has soccer. I am not a huge fan but even if I was I don&#8217;t think I would sit outside in minus-27 degrees just to watch a game. However, there are people in the US who actually did this to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2024\/03\/09\/fans-suffering-frostbite-after-freezing-kansas-city-chiefs-game-may-require-amputations.html\">the Kansas city &#038; Chiefs game<\/a> earlier this year and ended up getting hypothermia &#038; frostbite bad enough that <strong>70% of them need amputations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes you read that right. 70% of the fools who sat outside in the freezing cold are now looking at having their body parts amputated just because they didn&#8217;t want to leave a football match. I mean come on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The other 30% are not out completely either, they&#8217;ll have sensitivity and pain for the rest of their lives and always will be more susceptible to frostbite in the future. The weather is not a joke, whether its the heat or the cold. You can pretend you don&#8217;t believe in it and that it is not becoming more extreme but you will still be suffering if you don&#8217;t take precautions and not take chances by avoiding exposure whenever possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are crazy about sports. In India its cricket, US it&#8217;s football, UK is rugby and Brazil has soccer. I am not a huge fan but even if I was I don&#8217;t think I would sit outside in minus-27 degrees just to watch a game. However, there are people in the US who actually did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6451,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions\/6451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}