{"id":813,"date":"2008-08-08T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/?p=813"},"modified":"2008-08-08T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T19:15:00","slug":"disturbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/2008\/08\/08\/disturbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dooce.com\">Dooce.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is an incredibly disturbing story about the horrible neglect of a child. Long, and sad. But it does have a slightly happier ending. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/features\/humaninterest\/article750838.ece\">The girl in the window<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i> Her name, her mother had said, was Danielle. She was almost 7 years old.<\/p>\n<p>She weighed 46 pounds. She was malnourished and anemic. In the pediatric intensive care unit they tried to feed the girl, but she couldn&#8217;t chew or swallow solid food. So they put her on an IV and let her drink from a bottle. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She wouldn&#8217;t make eye contact. She didn&#8217;t react to heat or cold &#8211; or pain. The insertion of an IV needle elicited no reaction. She never cried. With a nurse holding her hands, she could stand and walk sideways on her toes, like a crab. She couldn&#8217;t talk, didn&#8217;t know how to nod yes or no. Once in a while she grunted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Danielle&#8217;s was &#8220;the most outrageous case of neglect I&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found via Dooce.com This is an incredibly disturbing story about the horrible neglect of a child. Long, and sad. But it does have a slightly happier ending. The girl in the window Her name, her mother had said, was Danielle. She was almost 7 years old. She weighed 46 pounds. She was malnourished and anemic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}