{"id":176480,"date":"2020-06-06T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/06\/this-is-the-most-2020-story-of-the-year-so-far\/"},"modified":"2020-06-06T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T00:04:00","slug":"this-is-the-most-2020-story-of-the-year-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/06\/this-is-the-most-2020-story-of-the-year-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Most 2020 Story of the Year (So Far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/03\/spanish-porn-actor-arrested-over-fatal-toad-venom-ceremony\">Spanish porn actor has been arrested in connection with the death of a photographer as the result of a bizarre ritual involving toad venom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that this will remain at the top of the pile, 2020 has a lot more sh%$ to toss our way, but right now, this story encapsulates the year almost perfectly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Spanish police have arrested three people, including a well known pornographic actor, in connection with the death of a photographer who is thought to have died after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidcarpenter\/2020\/02\/02\/5-meo-dmt-the-20-minute-psychoactive-toad-experience-thats-transforming-lives\/\">inhaling toad venom<\/a> during a shamanic ceremony.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Guardia Civil did not name those detained, but the fatal ceremony, which took place in the Valencian town of Enguera in July 2019, allegedly involved the Spanish porn actor Nacho Vidal, and resulted in the death of a fashion photographer, Jos\u00e9 Luis Abad.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cOfficers began the investigation after the death of a person during a mystical ritual involving the inhalation of vapours from the venom of the <i><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/8170151\/\">bufo alvarius<\/a><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/8170151\/\"> toad<\/a>,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It also warned that the alleged ritual was considerably more dangerous than people might think.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, the dead photographer would indicate that there was an element of risk in snorting toad venom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish porn actor has been arrested in connection with the death of a photographer as the result of a bizarre ritual involving toad venom. I don&#8217;t think that this will remain at the top of the pile, 2020 has a lot more sh%$ to toss our way, but right now, this story encapsulates the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[435,371,380,421],"class_list":["post-176480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crimes","tag-europe","tag-religion","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}