{"id":466,"date":"2012-04-11T14:38:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=466"},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:42:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T14:42:10","slug":"ideal-child-prosecution-witness-is-3-or-4-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Ideal child prosecution-witness is 3 or 4 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/111130Gardner-1.jpg\" alt=\"111130Gardner\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>April 11, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAlmost always you find the kids are three or four years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe two-year-olds are no good because they can&#8217;t speak well enough and are totally unreliable in what they do say. The five- and six-year-olds are already old enough to say, \u2018He didn&#8217;t do that, lady, and nothing you say is going to convince me of it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cBut threes and fours are perfect. After they&#8217;ve been worked over by a parent or zealous validator, they can be counted on because they believe it and will testify accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Dr. Richard A. Gardner, clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia<br \/>\nUniversity, quoted in Playboy magazine (June 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 11, 2012 \u201cAlmost always you find the kids are three or four years old. \u201cThe two-year-olds are no good because they can&#8217;t speak well enough and are totally unreliable in what they do say. The five- and six-year-olds are already old enough to say, \u2018He didn&#8217;t do that, lady, and nothing you say is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}