{"id":216,"date":"2007-08-24T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T15:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/08\/24\/1187968831799.html"},"modified":"2007-08-24T10:20:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T15:20:31","slug":"blogentry-more-on-kid-nation-kid-nation-morons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] More On Kid Nation (Kid Nation Morons?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN has a lengthy article up on <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/08\/24\/kidnation.complaints.ap\/index.html&#034;>the mother who claims that children were injured<\/a> during Kid Nation.  CNN&#039;s article, though, is much longer and goes into much greater detail about the show in general.<\/p>\n<p\/>\nHighlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complaint claims that 4 children &#034;accidentally drank bleach.&#034;  First of all, 4?  One maybe, but 4?  Second, dig how CBS confirms it as a &#034;bleach-sipping&#034; incident.  Makes you think of wine tasting contests where they&#039;re passing it around.  &#034;Does this taste like bleach to you?  here, try it.&#034;\n<li\/>The comment that adults of all shapes and sizes, including psychologists, doctors and so on were around at all times.  Ummm&#8230;so you *watched* 4 children drink bleach?  I mean, ok, the other girl who had grease spatter in her face, that was an unpreventable accident.  But somebody tell me how you watch 4 children drink bleach?\n<li\/>Parents signed a 22 page waiver that said they wouldn&#039;t sue, among other things, &#034;if their child dies.&#034;\n<\/ul>\n<p\/><b><em>ARE YOU FRIGGING KIDDING ME?<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p\/>Explain to me in god&#039;s name how you can put such a piece of paper in front of a parent and expect them to sign it?<br \/>\n&#034;Hey Billy, guess what Mommy signed you up for?&#034;  <\/p>\n<p\/>\n&#034;Karate?  Soccer?  Computer camp?&#034;  <\/p>\n<p\/>&#034;No, Kid Nation, where if you win mommy will take your $20,000, and by the way, you might die!  That&#039;s ok, though, Mommy signed the paper, you really have no say in it.  Get to work.  Oh, shoot, Billy died.  Well, I can&#039;t do anything about it, I signed a paper and everything.  Oh well, I&#039;ve got other kids.  Hey CBS, what else are you working on?  How much is the safety of my other children worth?&#034;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN has a lengthy article up on the mother who claims that children were injured during Kid Nation. CNN&#039;s article, though, is much longer and goes into much greater detail about the show in general. Highlights: Complaint claims that 4 children &#034;accidentally drank bleach.&#034; First of all, 4? One maybe, but 4? Second, dig how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}