{"id":1581,"date":"2009-09-07T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T23:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forthelost.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/07\/and-they-still-defend-the-abductor\/"},"modified":"2023-01-27T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T21:15:22","slug":"and-they-still-defend-the-abductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/07\/and-they-still-defend-the-abductor\/","title":{"rendered":"And they still defend the abductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of times I have now read a comment on the news stories devoted to the recovery of Richard Chekevdia that says &#8220;she must have had a very good reason&#8221; baffles me. She kept her child inside for two years. In a tiny room. No one would be defending a male abductor. Is it really so ingrained in people that mothers always do best for their children that they will excuse <em>anything<\/em> they do? And are there more than a handful of kidnapping cases where mom doesn&#8217;t say she did it to protect her kid from their evil abusive father?<\/p>\n<p>I suspect the answer is &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of times I have now read a comment on the news stories devoted to the recovery of Richard Chekevdia that says &#8220;she must have had a very good reason&#8221; baffles me. She kept her child inside for two years. In a tiny room. No one would be defending a male abductor. Is it [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-abductions","category-located-safe","category-missing-people-in-the-news","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29954,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/29954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forthelost.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}