{"id":579,"date":"2012-07-27T01:47:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T01:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=579"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:07:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:07:42","slug":"why-have-historians-overlooked-day-care-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Why have historians overlooked day-care mania?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120727Terzian.jpg\" alt=\"120727Terzian\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>July 27, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIt has always intrigued me that, in a culture that is relentlessly self-critical&#8230; the pre-school hysteria and witch-hunts of the 1980s and \u201990s (have) attracted little, if any, notice among historians and social analysts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cWhich is odd: We moderns like to think that we are exempt from some of the baser instincts of human nature, but hysteria, mob rule, and spectral fears are still very much with us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cMoreover, in this instance, the American judicial system failed systematically, blighting hundreds of lives: Many more genuinely innocent people went to prison, and for longer terms, than any Communist during the McCarthy era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cRemember McMartin\u201d by Philip Terzian in the Weekly Standard (Nov. 11, 2011)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 27, 2012 \u201cIt has always intrigued me that, in a culture that is relentlessly self-critical&#8230; the pre-school hysteria and witch-hunts of the 1980s and \u201990s (have) attracted little, if any, notice among historians and social analysts. \u201cWhich is odd: We moderns like to think that we are exempt from some of the baser instincts [&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-579","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\/579","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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}