The other day a colleague told me he had a theory.<\/p>\n
“What’s your theory?” I asked.<\/p>\n
He said his theory was that some children like to eat dirt because they have an instinct to develop defenses against micro-organisms in their environment. It is a way to ensure the continued survival of the species.<\/p>\n
“That makes sense,” I said. “And I have another theory.”<\/p>\n
“What’s your theory?” he asked.<\/p>\n
“My theory is that some parents like to stop children from eating dirt because they have an instinct to prevent the continued survival of the species.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The other day a colleague told me he had a theory. “What’s your theory?” I asked. He said his theory was that some children like to eat dirt because they have an instinct to develop defenses against micro-organisms in their environment. It is a way to ensure the continued survival of the species. “That makes … Continue reading “Loco parentis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12482"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12492,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482\/revisions\/12492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}