{"id":179850,"date":"2017-10-06T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/06\/this-story-is-not-what-you-think-it-is\/"},"modified":"2017-10-06T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T00:49:00","slug":"this-story-is-not-what-you-think-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/06\/this-story-is-not-what-you-think-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"This Story Is Not What You Think It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few days, there has been a story making the rounds about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2017\/10\/04\/a-mother-refused-to-follow-a-court-order-to-vaccinate-her-son-now-shes-going-to-jail\/\">a mother has been sent to jail for refusing to vaccinate her child<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You could think of this as a story of overreach by public health authorities, but it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>You could also think of it as long overdue action by public health authorities against the clear and present dangers of the loss of herd immunity, but it&#8217;s not that either.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a child custody dispute. <\/p>\n<p>Both parents have joint custody, and they ended up in court to adjudicate their disagreement over whether or not their child should be immunized.<\/p>\n<p>They judge ruled, the wife disobeyed, and he sent her to jail for contempt of court.<\/p>\n<p>This is a remarkably ordinary dispute between two divorced parents over a medical decision, and that is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few days, there has been a story making the rounds about how a mother has been sent to jail for refusing to vaccinate her child. You could think of this as a story of overreach by public health authorities, but it&#8217;s not. You could also think of it as long overdue action &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[495,523,407],"class_list":["post-179850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-health","tag-journalism","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}