{"id":29013,"date":"2014-12-03T00:04:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T05:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29013"},"modified":"2014-12-02T23:13:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T04:13:16","slug":"tennessee-salvation-army-covers-themselves-with-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/12\/03\/tennessee-salvation-army-covers-themselves-with-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Salvation Army covers themselves with shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/pedophile-panic-at-the-salvation-army-no\" target=\"_blank\">Lenore Skenazy<\/a> posted an item about a family in Tennessee who were turned away from a Salvation Army shelter because of their 15-year-old son:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When it comes to helping families in need, the Salvation Army turns a cold shoulder to one class of people: Teenage boys. A family in Johnson City, TN, found this out recently when, on a freezing cold night, they asked the organization for shelter. But because their family of five contained a 15-year-old boy, they were turned down. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But wait &#8230; for all the worries about police officers going rogue and acting like an occupying army instead of peace officers, there are still some good ones serving and protecting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So instead the family headed to their car. The temperature: 18 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, local police officers came upon them and brought them to the Johnson Inn. The officers then pooled their money to pay for a room. When the night clerk figured out what was going on, he comped the room, so the officers&#8217; money went to groceries for the family.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, 911 dispatchers who had been in on the action pooled their money to provide the Lejeunes some more food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the Salvation Army relented and took the family in &#8230; minus the 15-year-old, who felt that he was the reason his family was turned out into the below-freezing weather. He&#8217;s apparently now in a mental hospital, having had a breakdown over the guilt the Salvation Army helped him feel to the fullest. Nice work, guys. So Christian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenore Skenazy posted an item about a family in Tennessee who were turned away from a Salvation Army shelter because of their 15-year-old son: When it comes to helping families in need, the Salvation Army turns a cold shoulder to one class of people: Teenage boys. A family in Johnson City, TN, found this out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[360,931,98,504,743],"class_list":["post-29013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-usa","tag-christianity","tag-moralpanic","tag-police","tag-teenagers","tag-tennessee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7xX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29015,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29013\/revisions\/29015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}