{"id":757,"date":"2001-11-16T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2001-11-16T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=757"},"modified":"2001-11-16T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2001-11-16T15:06:50","slug":"parental_politi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/16\/parental_politi.html","title":{"rendered":"Parental politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another case<\/a> of estranged parents (at least one, probably two) more interested in scoring points against each other than in actually doing what’s best for the kid.<\/p>\n

“I was filling out paperwork for refinancing my home; my last name is six letters long and (even) it wouldn’t fit in the boxes on the form,” Newman said. “Why does anyone think it’s in a toddler’s best interests to saddle her with such a long name that would never fit in any box?”<\/p>\n

Yeah, that’s it. We’ll decide the issue based on crappy form design and name length.<\/p>\n

Of course, I think any parent who would actually saddle someone with the first name of “Kyleigh” should have custody revoked anyway, but that’s just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another case of estranged parents (at least one, probably two) more interested in scoring points against each other than in actually doing what’s best for the kid. “I was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5903,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/01\/kid_stuff_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":757,"position":0},"title":"Kid stuff","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Jul-04 9:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"The secret to good Kid TV is coming up with something that parents can enjoy. No, really. That not only encourages parents to let the little tot burn their eyeballs...","rel":"","context":"In "Disney\/Pixar"","block_context":{"text":"Disney\/Pixar","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/disney"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13254,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/05\/playing_for_points.html","url_meta":{"origin":757,"position":1},"title":"Playing for points","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Feb-09 10:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"The GOP Congresscritters have clearly decided that they are more interested in scoring points than in helping people. It's not just a matter of fiddling while Rome burns --...","rel":"","context":"In "Economy"","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/economy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/republican.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6487,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/26\/home_visit.html","url_meta":{"origin":757,"position":2},"title":"Home visit","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Aug-04 12:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The teachers at Katherine's pre-school do something very, very strange. Home visits. I.e., before the school year starts, the teacher and her aide (and, in our case, a special ed...","rel":"","context":"In "School Daze"","block_context":{"text":"School Daze","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/school-daze"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28124,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/debunking-david-bartons-doltery.html","url_meta":{"origin":757,"position":3},"title":"Debunking David Barton's Doltery","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 4-Jun-12 10:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"While I understand the concern over (a) legitimizing that there's a serious\u00a0debate about these things and (b) the deafness of the True Believers to anything that resembles truth, I still think it's worth tackling folks like Barton. \u00a0The battle is not for the True Believers, but for the folks on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7840,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/06\/bt05_even_bloga.html","url_meta":{"origin":757,"position":4},"title":"BT05 – Even Blogathonners Can Cry","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-Aug-05 4:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"All right -- back in the saddle again! Can't believe it's already 4 p.m. That makes it late afternoon, nearly evening, which means night, at the end of which I'll...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogathon"","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33517,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/on-the-naming-of-names-5.html","url_meta":{"origin":757,"position":5},"title":"On the Naming of Names","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-May-13 2:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Referring to the underlying story -- this is one of those things I always feel torn about. On the one hand, it would be arguably cruel to saddle a baby with the name \"Lucifer.\" But where does one draw the bright light, and on what basis. \u00a0Can babies be named\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}