{"id":220,"date":"2007-08-18T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/1187452957070.html"},"modified":"2007-08-18T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T16:02:37","slug":"blogentry-kid-nation-let-the-lawsuits-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Kid Nation : Let The Lawsuits Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The show&#039;s been taped, and hasn&#039;t debuted yet, so why not kill some time by <a href=&#034;http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/18\/arts\/television\/18kid.html?_r=2&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;ref=television&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;adxnnlx=1187460429-IWIcMB8M05e2Xt30MMOCUg&#034;>filing a child abuse lawsuit<\/a>?  Most of the people who checked in here with a relationship to the show said that they had a great time.  But there&#039;s at least one mother who has filed suit, claiming that the kids were neglected.  One girl was burned by grease while cooking, and one &#034;accidentally&#034; drank bleach.  Not quite sure how you do that, I&#039;m wondering what episode that will be on.<\/p>\n<p\/>Kid Nation, for those that missed the earlier posts, is a sort of Survivor \/ Lord of the Flies thing where they fill up a &#034;ghost town&#034; with nothing but kids and see if they can build up their own society.  No word on whether there will be pig&#039;s heads, conch shells or sticks sharpened at both ends.<\/p>\n<p\/><b>Update:<\/b> I&#039;ve been nicely corrected, she hasn&#039;t filed a lawsuit (yet), merely written a letter of complaint.  I suppose you need to establish that someone&#039;s broken laws first.  But who are we really kidding, if a kid sustained an injury, then regardless of what waivers they signed, there&#039;s going to be a lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The show&#039;s been taped, and hasn&#039;t debuted yet, so why not kill some time by filing a child abuse lawsuit? Most of the people who checked in here with a relationship to the show said that they had a great time. But there&#039;s at least one mother who has filed suit, claiming that the kids [&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-220","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\/220","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=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}