{"id":1750,"date":"2006-12-06T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/12\/06\/hey-quit-shaking-that-box\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T15:13:00","slug":"hey-quit-shaking-that-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/12\/06\/hey-quit-shaking-that-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, quit shaking that box!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boy booked for opening Christmas present<\/p>\n<p>By SEANNA ADCOX<br \/>ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER<\/p>\n<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. &#8212; A fed-up mother had her 12-year-old son arrested for allegedly rummaging through his great-grandmother&#8217;s things and playing with his Christmas present early.<\/p>\n<p>The mother called police Sunday after learning her son had disobeyed orders and repeatedly taken a Game Boy from its hiding place at his great-grandmother&#8217;s house next door and played it. He was arrested on petty larceny charges, taken to the police station in handcuffs and held until his mother picked him up after church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My grandmother went out of her way to lay away a toy and paid on this thing for months,&#8221; said the boy&#8217;s mother, Brandi Ervin. &#8220;It was only to teach my son a lesson. He&#8217;s been going through life doing things &#8230; and getting away with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/1110AP_Christmas_Present_Arrest.html\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Boy booked for opening Christmas present By SEANNA ADCOXASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER COLUMBIA, S.C. &#8212; A fed-up mother had her 12-year-old son arrested for allegedly rummaging through his great-grandmother&#8217;s things and playing with his Christmas present early. The mother called police Sunday after learning her son had disobeyed orders and repeatedly taken a Game Boy from&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2006\/12\/06\/hey-quit-shaking-that-box\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}