{"id":805,"date":"2013-02-06T17:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=805"},"modified":"2016-01-01T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:06:27","slug":"long-history-of-panic-extended-to-day-care-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Long history of panic&#8217; extended to day-care cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/130206Fairchild.jpg\" alt=\"130206Fairchild\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Feb. 6, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cPanic provides a rationale for action, sometimes overreaction or even manipulation. As such, it is the subject of heated accusation and denial that can create a swirl of confusion and frustration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cNonetheless, some lessons stand out in the long history of panic. There is no basis for imagining that the frenzied 19th century reactions to disease are a slumbering beast waiting to be roused. Too much government infrastructure and information stand between populations and unfettered panic&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/28\/a-brief-history-of-panic\/?src=twrhp\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Brief History of Panic<\/em><\/a><em>\u201d by Amy L. Fairchild, David Merritt Johns\u00a0and Kavita Sivara Makrishnan, public health researchers\u00a0at Columbia University\u00a0 (the New York Times, January 28, 2013)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cFrenzied&#8230;. reactions\u201d to disease epidemics may have subsided since the 19th century, but they were crucial in animating the day-care ritual-abuse prosecutions of the 1980s and \u201990s. And \u201cgovernment infrastructure\u201d \u2013 that is, district attorneys\u2019 offices \u2013 wasn\u2019t a deterrent but an accelerant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 6, 2013 \u201cPanic provides a rationale for action, sometimes overreaction or even manipulation. As such, it is the subject of heated accusation and denial that can create a swirl of confusion and frustration. \u201cNonetheless, some lessons stand out in the long history of panic. There is no basis for imagining that the frenzied 19th [&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-805","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\/805","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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}