{"id":1152,"date":"2008-07-14T13:44:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2008-07-14T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T17:44:30","slug":"three-kids-steal-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/three-kids-steal-a-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Three kids steal a car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not our kids.<\/p>\n<p>Three kids from New York apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2008\/07\/10\/6123081-ap.html\" target=\"_blank\">tried to steal a car<\/a> from a trailer park (undoubtedly one they called home &#8211; was that over the Snarkyville town line?).\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that the collective age of 33 wasn&#8217;t enough to actually qualify for a driver&#8217;s license, and they basically played bumper cars when the cops showed up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spooked by the emergency lights of arriving troopers, the girls accelerated, crashed into a vehicle parked in a driveway and then veered across a road into a trailer at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The subtext to note here is the fact that these three were out and about on their own at 2:30am on a Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Some good parenting going on behind the scenes, methinks.\u00c2\u00a0 They were probably sent out to get Dad some smokes and got tired of walking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not our kids. Three kids from New York apparently tried to steal a car from a trailer park (undoubtedly one they called home &#8211; was that over the Snarkyville town line?).\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that the collective age of 33 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/three-kids-steal-a-car\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-iA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}