{"id":286,"date":"2007-01-04T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T11:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=286"},"modified":"2007-01-04T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T11:01:08","slug":"the-ashley-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Ashley Treatment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard in the media today about the decision of parents of a severely disabled girl to keep her child-sized in order to give her a better life. The family live in Seattle and the nine-year-old, named Ashley, has the mental ability of a three-month-old baby and cannot walk or talk. Along with hormone doses to limit her growth, Ashley&#8217;s parents also opted for surgery to block breast growth and had her uterus and appendix removed.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not at all sure how I feel about this but, if you want to read her parents&#8217; explanation of the treatment and its justification, you can check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/ashleytreatment.spaces.live.com\/blog\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard in the media today about the decision of parents of a severely disabled girl to keep her child-sized in order to give her a better life. The family live in Seattle and the nine-year-old, named Ashley, has the mental ability of a three-month-old baby and cannot walk or talk. Along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}