{"id":15490,"date":"2016-06-24T23:22:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T23:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15490"},"modified":"2016-06-24T23:23:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T23:23:16","slug":"dont-whos-goofier-robbins-or-the-idiots-who-got-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15490","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s goofier: Robbins or the idiots who got burned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AAhAdrT-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15492\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AAhAdrT-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"AAhAdrT\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AAhAdrT-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/AAhAdrT-1.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tony Robbins has made a lot of money over many years as a motivational speaker.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the guy&#8217;s pretty good at what he does. How else does one explain what happened recently at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas?<\/p>\n<p>Robbins was conducting a seminar titled &#8220;Unleash the Power Within.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robbins &#8212; who one of my sons used to refer to as &#8220;The Guy With the Teeth&#8221; &#8212; then persuaded attendees to walk across burning coals.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty of them suffered moderate to severe burns on their feet.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that this guy actually talked people into committing this bizarre act. Who in the hell actually would <em>do<\/em> such a thing?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who deserves the scorn here: The Guy With the Teeth or the &#8220;victims&#8221; who got burned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2016\/06\/24\/more-than-30-people-burned-in-motivational-speaker-tony-robbins-hot-coals-walk.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2016\/06\/24\/more-than-30-people-burned-in-motivational-speaker-tony-robbins-hot-coals-walk.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is there something here that I don&#8217;t understand?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Robbins has made a lot of money over many years as a motivational speaker. I guess the guy&#8217;s pretty good at what he does. How else does one explain what happened recently at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas? Robbins was conducting a seminar titled &#8220;Unleash the Power Within.&#8221; Robbins &#8212; who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s goofier: Robbins or the idiots who got burned<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[6355,6354],"class_list":["post-15490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-national-news","tag-motivational-speaker","tag-tony-robbins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15494,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions\/15494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}