{"id":45887,"date":"2014-07-23T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45887"},"modified":"2014-08-06T09:56:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:56:53","slug":"every-parent-a-felon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45887","title":{"rendered":"Every Parent A Felon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was five years old, I walked to kindergarten every day. It was three blocks each way.  For that matter, so did nearly every other five-year-old who lived within three blocks of the place.<\/p>\n<p>The next year? First grade? I and all my friends walked six blocks each way to school.<\/p>\n<p>My parents would probably be arrested today.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/20\/opinion\/sunday\/ross-douthat-the-parent-trap.html?smid=fb-share&#038;_r=0&#038;referrer=\">Ross Douthat&#8217;s latest<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>And besides the usual snickering at the overweening, overprotective helicopter parent run amok, Douthat  points out something much more corrosive:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Third is an erosion of community and social trust, which has made ordinary neighborliness seem somehow unnatural or archaic, and given us instead what Gracy Olmstead\u2019s article in The American Conservative dubs the \u201cbad Samaritan\u201d phenomenon \u2014 the passer-by who passes the buck to law enforcement as expeditiously as possible. (Technology accentuates this problem: Why speak to a parent when you can just snap a smartphone picture for the cops?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 20 years of watching John Walsh has turned us into a nation of Dwight Schrutes.  <\/p>\n<p>Except when child protective services gets involved, nobody walks away laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was five years old, I walked to kindergarten every day. It was three blocks each way. For that matter, so did nearly every other five-year-old who lived within three blocks of the place. The next year? First grade? I and all my friends walked six blocks each way to school. My parents would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46213,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887\/revisions\/46213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}