{"id":768,"date":"2012-12-28T14:39:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=768"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:50:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:50:02","slug":"in-search-of-clues-or-indicators-for-ritual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"In search of &#8216;clues or indicators&#8217; for ritual abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Dec. 28, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Let\u2019s not leave behind \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=766\">Ritual Abuse: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How to Help<\/a>\u201d without considering Appendix B, \u201cSimilarities in the Lives of Ritual Abuse Survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Author Margaret Smith \u201casked survivors to note any clues or indicators in their lives that may have suggested they were ritually abused as a child.\u201d She then \u201corganize(d) these responses into meaningful categories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Like the symptom charts of psychologist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=680\">Catherine Gould<\/a>, these \u201cmeaningful categories\u201d strain to make the wildly anecdotal seem scientific.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cReactions to Objects That Trigger Memories,\u201d for instance, includes not only \u201cPreference for red meat,\u201d but also \u201cHated read meat. I have been a vegetarians since I was a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIndicators from Childhood or Adult Behavior\u201d covers both \u201cThrew up a lot\u201d and \u201cWould never allow myself to vomit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">And just what manner of abuse might be revealed by \u201cclues\u201d such as \u2013 I wish I were kidding \u2013 \u201cAddicted to book reading\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 28, 2012 Let\u2019s not leave behind \u201cRitual Abuse: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How to Help\u201d without considering Appendix B, \u201cSimilarities in the Lives of Ritual Abuse Survivors.\u201d Author Margaret Smith \u201casked survivors to note any clues or indicators in their lives that may have suggested they were ritually abused as a [&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-768","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\/768","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=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}