{"id":2351,"date":"2010-11-08T14:09:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T18:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2010-11-08T14:09:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T18:09:47","slug":"30-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/30-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Grand(mother)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, if there&#8217;s one thing I love in this world, it&#8217;s people.\u00c2\u00a0 People are awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 They never cease to delight, disgust and amaze me.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2010\/11\/06\/16005846.html?cid=rssnewsweird%20news\" target=\"_blank\">this  Florida grandmother<\/a>, who decided that being a grandmother was a little too much work, and tried to sell her grandson.\u00c2\u00a0 Somebody talked, the police got involved, and they conducted a sting operation to catch her.\u00c2\u00a0 During the negotiation portion of the transaction, the undercover informant actually managed to haggle (HAGGLE!) the purchase price (OF A CHILD) down from $75000 to $30000.\u00c2\u00a0 Upon exchanging the money, the police swooped in and arrested the &#8220;grandmother&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This story is noteworthy all by itself, but astute readers might wonder where the child&#8217;s mother (or father) might be during this activity.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that the mother was already in jail (on charges of unrelated douchebaggery), and left her child in her mother&#8217;s care.\u00c2\u00a0 Dear old Granny.\u00c2\u00a0 The child is now in state custody, and hopefully will find a home somewhere that is a bit more stable REAL SOON NOW.<\/p>\n<p>Cripes.<\/p>\n<p>Yes these things do write themselves sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, if there&#8217;s one thing I love in this world, it&#8217;s people.\u00c2\u00a0 People are awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 They never cease to delight, disgust and amaze me.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance, this Florida grandmother, who decided that being a grandmother was a little too much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/30-grandmother\/\">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":[292],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stupidity","tag-wow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-BV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","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=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}