{"id":67,"date":"2004-02-11T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=67"},"modified":"2004-02-11T20:00:52","modified_gmt":"2004-02-12T01:00:52","slug":"sounds-about-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Sounds about right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One million dollars bail.<br \/>\nUnlike the great state of Massachusetts, where this week, legislators are in a twit over the granting of marriage licenses to any couple who doesn&#8217;t look like Trista and Ryan, they don&#8217;t cotton much to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/Northeast\/02\/11\/child.cellar.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">child abuse <\/a>in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.<br \/>\nAnd more power to &#8217;em.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/04042\/271752.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Debra Liberman<\/a>, 50, was arraigned earlier in the day on charges including assault with a deadly weapon, attempted homicide, and arson with threat of death.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis latest contender for Mother of the Year beat a 7-year-old girl with a dog chain and keys, burned her wrists on a stove, doused her naked body with bleach, then locked the girl inside a closet in a coal cellar, with a safe blocking the door.<br \/>\nWould you call that just a tad premeditated?<br \/>\nFor good measure, she chucked a burning furnace filter into the coal cellar.<br \/>\nA neighbor, hearing screams from the house, called the police, who rescued the child.<br \/>\nThe little one is in the hospital tonight, her 4 year old brother is with a different, unidentified caregiver and Liberman is in the slammer.<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t WAIT to hear defense counsel&#8217;s rationale; let&#8217;s pick from the following creative options:<br \/>\n&#8211; Post-menopausal depression<br \/>\n&#8211; Twinkies<br \/>\n&#8211; Self-defense<br \/>\n&#8211; A third world doctor from a second rate clinic pulled her meds<br \/>\n&#8211; Religious cult brainwashing<br \/>\n&#8211; Mad Cow<br \/>\n&#8211; The glove, er, safe, er, dog chain didn&#8217;t fit.<br \/>\nOh, did I mention that the little girl is &#8220;Mommy Dearest&#8217;s&#8221; ADOPTED daughter?<br \/>\nNice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One million dollars bail. Unlike the great state of Massachusetts, where this week, legislators are in a twit over the granting of marriage licenses to any couple who doesn&#8217;t look like Trista and Ryan, they don&#8217;t cotton much to child &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=67\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}