{"id":272,"date":"2006-10-18T22:53:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T22:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/18\/ItsOfficialLawyersHaveNowRuinedChildhood.aspx"},"modified":"2006-10-18T22:53:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T22:53:03","slug":"its-official-lawyers-have-now-ruined-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/18\/its-official-lawyers-have-now-ruined-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s official: Lawyers have now ruined childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"150\" alt=\"ellen%20tackle.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/thelittles.smugmug.com\/photos\/103605979-S.jpg\" width=\"135\"><\/p>\n<p>Not satisfied with taking the fun out of most everything else, lawyers have now turned their attention on that most sacred of childhood pastimes: a good game of tag.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061113120425\/http:\/\/www.cnn.com:80\/2006\/US\/10\/18\/no.tag.ap\/index.html?\">Schools, for fear of being sued by parents, have now started to ban any game in which a child might possibly get hurt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers, be forewarned: when I become all-powerful (it&#8217;ll happen any day now, I&#8217;m sure) I&#8217;m going to stick you in a very small room with the guy who invented those wretched plastic clamshell security packages and Corey Feldman.&nbsp; In that room you will be locked for all time,&nbsp;fed only Oreo cookies (without milk, of course) and forced to listen to a never-ending stream of Celine Dion ballads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061113120425\/http:\/\/www.cnn.com:80\/2006\/US\/10\/18\/no.tag.ap\/index.html?\">Link to School bans tag, other chase games &#8211; CNN.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not satisfied with taking the fun out of most everything else, lawyers have now turned their attention on that most sacred of childhood pastimes: a good game of tag.&nbsp; Schools, for fear of being sued by parents, have now started to ban any game in which a child might possibly get hurt. Lawyers, be forewarned: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlelife","category-webweird","tag-idlelife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}