{"id":2247,"date":"2005-05-13T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2018-06-08T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T22:41:45","slug":"mother-displays-ignorance-of-13-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/13\/mother-displays-ignorance-of-13-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Displays Ignorance of 13-Year-Olds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blame for the 13-year-old who climbed an electrical tower, touched a 19,700 volt transmission line, and fell lies not with the child, for his lack of common sense, nor with parenting that didn&#8217;t hone his instincts, nor with the friends who had five dollars to bet him he wouldn&#8217;t do it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/metroeast\/story\/560C7C35B828A84B8625700000168C07?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Of course not.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anna Thebeau says her son, 13-year-old Justin Porter, wouldn&#8217;t be in the hospital recovering from burns and a broken pelvis if the electric tower he scaled on a $5 bet had a warning sign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s <i>Illinois Power&#8217;s<\/i> fault for not having a sign.  Lawsuit countdown begins.<\/p>\n<p>Because teenagers heed all signs and obey all posted rules.  Perhaps Justin is an anamoly, but somehow, I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blame for the 13-year-old who climbed an electrical tower, touched a 19,700 volt transmission line, and fell lies not with the child, for his lack of common sense, nor with parenting that didn&#8217;t hone his instincts, nor with the friends who had five dollars to bet him he wouldn&#8217;t do it. Of course not. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20123,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/20123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}