{"id":477,"date":"2002-09-27T12:49:18","date_gmt":"2002-09-27T15:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=477"},"modified":"2011-06-03T12:55:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:55:43","slug":"parenting-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/parenting-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting for dummies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We interrupt our latest obsession with macro codes and visual basic programming to bring the following tip for people who have no business reproducing&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p><span class=\"reglink\">&#8220;Milton, Fla., police Detective Mike Daughtery told the Associated Press the dying boy said Hoffman and his mother kept him mostly in one room, beat him every day, only fed him scraps and didn&#8217;t let him out of the house to go to school or see friends&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you feed your child, love them and care for them&#8230;. they live.<\/p>\n<p>When you starve them for five months, beat them repeatedly and ship them on a bus across the country, where strangers take them in, as they&#8217;re described as &#8220;looking like a holocaust victim&#8221;&#8230; well, they tend to die.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions?<\/p>\n<p>A little local news to bring some pride to my adopted <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Police State<\/span>hometown.<br \/>\n*sigh* :0(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We interrupt our latest obsession with macro codes and visual basic programming to bring the following tip for people who have no business reproducing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21,1,2,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-enemy-of-the-state","category-heartbreak","category-news-gossip","category-old-stuff","category-pure-unadulterated-stupidity","category-poconos"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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