{"id":628,"date":"2009-11-18T13:35:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2009-11-18T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:36:50","slug":"in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"In the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;m in need of work, and I used to work as a babysitter while I was in high school, I doubt that it would ever have occurred to me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/india\/6515365\/Indian-family-discovers-nanny-was-renting-child-to-beggars.html\">drug the child I was watching and rent it to a beggar<\/a>. Of course, with the Democrat&#8217;s economy going the way it is, that may become a viable option in future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/france\/6511242\/French-security-guard-drives-off-with-10m-euros.html\">I&#8217;m surprised that this sort of thing doesn&#8217;t seem to happen more often<\/a>. <em>&#8220;Of course our suspicions fall on the driver,&#8221; prosecutor Xavier Richaud told the private iTele television channel.<\/em> No, really? Just because he and the money disappeared, and his bank accounts had been closed, is that a reason to suspect him?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we should take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,572526,00.html?test=latestnews\">this news story<\/a> as an aspiration, rather than a cautionary tale. I think ratings would improve for beauty pageants if we had the contestants fight each other &#8230; perhaps in jello pits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-can-you-catch-up-on-sleep\">Bad news for those of us who like to stay up later than we ought.<\/a> Unfortunately for me, I can&#8217;t normally sleep eight hours at a stretch &#8211; five or six is more usual. Naps are certainly an option, though &#8211; until I find a job, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;m in need of work, and I used to work as a babysitter while I was in high school, I doubt that it would ever have occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-health","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}