{"id":165998,"date":"2013-09-13T00:16:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T00:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2013\/09\/13\/i-almost-lost-my-life-will-i-am\/"},"modified":"2013-09-13T00:16:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T00:16:21","slug":"i-almost-lost-my-life-will-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2013\/09\/13\/i-almost-lost-my-life-will-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"I almost lost my life: Will.i.am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/SAHMSGWTBRGVORGYDQYZ.jpg>Singer Will.i.am almost drowned in a swimming pool because he failed to listen to his mother Debra\u2019s advice.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old nearly lost his life when he was a youngster and decided to go for a dip in the pool, reports femalefirst.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018Ma, can I go swimming?\u2019 She was like \u2018no, boy, you ain\u2019t going in no swimming pool\u2019,\u201d Daily Mirror newspaper quoted the \u201cScream and shout\u201d hitmaker as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo my mom said no but I did the opposite. I\u2019ve never been in a swimming pool and so I don\u2019t know the difference between 3ft and 9ft &#8211; I\u2019m thinking that everything is at the height that I\u2019m at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m walking and I start sinking and then I drown. I\u2019m under water for about three or four minutes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>After the incident, someone gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation before rushing him off to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey gave me mouth to mouth and then I\u2019m, like, dead. And then I come back. They took me to hospital and I\u2019m in there for about a week or something. I almost lost my life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did lose my life but when I came to and I was in the hospital&#8230; to see the worry on my mom and my uncle\u2019s faces&#8230; And just the reminder of, like, don\u2019t do things that you know you shouldn\u2019t be doing. I shouldn\u2019t have been swimming because I never knew how to swim,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Will.i.am almost drowned in a swimming pool because he failed to listen to his mother Debra\u2019s advice. The 38-year-old nearly lost his life when he was a youngster and decided to go for a dip in the pool, reports femalefirst.co.uk. \u201cI was like, \u2018Ma, can I go swimming?\u2019 She was like \u2018no, boy, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}