{"id":51211,"date":"2015-02-11T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51211"},"modified":"2015-02-11T07:09:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T13:09:49","slug":"i-thought-those-crazy-kids-had-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51211","title":{"rendered":"I Thought Those Crazy Kids Had A Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Manson&#8217;s wedding is off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/charles-manson-wedding-off-after-it-emerges-that-girlfriend-afton-elaine-burton-just-wanted-his-corpse-for-display-10034793.html\">again<\/a>\u00a0after the spree killer and cult leader discovers his betrothed really just wants to build a museum around him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They apparently thought the Lenin&#8217;s Tomb-esque attraction would draw a huge number of visitors and make a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>But Manson, 80, apparently got wind of the plan and now no longer wants to marry Burton.<br \/>\n&#8220;He\u2019s finally realized that he\u2019s been played for a fool,&#8221; Simone told The NY Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would have been an ironic turning of the tables&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tourist attraction was also something of a non-starter because Manson believes he is immortal.<br \/>\n&#8220;He feels he will never die,&#8221; Simone added. &#8220;Therefore, he feels it\u2019s a stupid idea to begin with.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, I remember worse business plans back during the dotcom era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Manson&#8217;s wedding is off again\u00a0after the spree killer and cult leader discovers his betrothed really just wants to build a museum around him: They apparently thought the Lenin&#8217;s Tomb-esque attraction would draw a huge number of visitors and make a lot of money. But Manson, 80, apparently got wind of the plan and now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51254,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51211\/revisions\/51254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}