{"id":1318,"date":"2004-03-30T18:02:34","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T23:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/mobe_mania_an_i"},"modified":"2004-03-30T18:02:34","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T23:02:34","slug":"mobe_mania_an_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Mobe Mania\/Cellphone Deprivation &#8211; an internet legend in the making?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You never know what you will find in the Register, the United Kingdom&#8217;s outrageous IT news site. This tantalizing story appeared on March 29: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA crazed 14-year-old girl from Hong Kong had to be subdued by police with pepper spray, after she attacked her dear old ma with a knife and wooden pole and chased her around their flat. This must rate as the Godzilla of all teen strops. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe mother had &#8211; clearly ill-advisedly &#8211; decided to confiscate her daughter&#8217;s mobile phone. She ended up barricaded in her bedroom for her trouble, with the frenzied adolescent hacking at the door a la Jack Nicholson. Mercifully, the authorities intervened at that point. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I could not find any other mention of this via Google, so I am offering it as entertainment only. Lester Haines has written many legitimate news stories, so this incident may be a harbinger of a vast, all-consuming wave of cell-phone addictions to come.<\/p>\n<p>By next week, certain psychiatrists may be salivating at the chance to make a name for themselves, and pharmacutical marketing types may be drafting copy for the next generation of mood-altering drugs, &#8220;<i><strong>PHONOVER<\/strong><\/i> for those times when you can&#8217;t stay connected!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/68\/36617.html\">Mobe-deprived teen attacks mother with knife.<\/a> By Lester Haines.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have to decide this one for yourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never know what you will find in the Register, the United Kingdom&#8217;s outrageous IT news site. This tantalizing story appeared on March 29: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA crazed 14-year-old girl from Hong Kong had to be subdued by police with pepper spray, after she attacked her dear old ma with a knife and wooden pole and chased her around their flat. This must rate as the Godzilla of all teen strops.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1318\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1826],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-lg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}