{"id":912,"date":"2013-04-12T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T23:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=912"},"modified":"2016-07-04T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:24:54","slug":"if-somebody-killed-a-rabbit-at-my-day-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;If somebody killed a rabbit at my day care&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">April 12, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">In January 1993, supporters of the Edenton Seven held a press conference in Hertford to demand that North Carolina authorities bring to an end \u2013 in the words of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=180\">Raymond Lawrence<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cthis continuing social catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Also speaking out were\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=206\">Doug Wiik<\/a>\u00a0of Langhorne, Pa., a day care owner who survived a close call with the mania, and Susan Corbett, director of a day care in Richmond, Va.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Ms. Corbett\u2019s contribution also included weekly letters to Dawn Wilson while she was imprisoned and gifts for her baby at Easter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Now retired, Ms. Corbett says she recognized immediately that the Little Rascals charges were preposterous: \u201cThere was no question in my mind. If somebody killed a rabbit at my day care, everybody in town would know it in 24 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">So why did so many others succumb?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cI think people uncomfortable with sexuality bought into it more easily. The Bible Belt, the right wing and a perverted, anti-sexual stage of feminism all came together&#8230;. And the world of social work was being sold a bill of goods at that time \u2013 all that crap with (anatomically correct) dolls.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 12, 2013 In January 1993, supporters of the Edenton Seven held a press conference in Hertford to demand that North Carolina authorities bring to an end \u2013 in the words of\u00a0Raymond Lawrence\u00a0\u2013 \u201cthis continuing social catastrophe.\u201d Also speaking out were\u00a0Doug Wiik\u00a0of Langhorne, Pa., a day care owner who survived a close call with the [&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-912","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\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}