{"id":10905,"date":"2014-09-02T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T04:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=10905"},"modified":"2017-06-28T21:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T04:23:02","slug":"punched-in-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=10905","title":{"rendered":"Punched in the Face!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my daughter comes home from college today and tells me this tale:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I was in the bathroom before class washing my hands, when this woman came in and tried to steal my backpack. I pulled on it to get it back, and she punched me in the face. \u00a0So I punched her in the boob, and she fell down and I ran out. \u00a0By the time I found security, she was gone, but they took down all the information and called the police, and apologized to me profusely &#8211; and then because I was late, they let me go to class. But I did get my bag away from her!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Thing one:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I never thought to warn my daughter about the violent women in this world &#8211; only the men. \u00a0These days, there are plenty of malevolent, predatory women around, and apparently, you can&#8217;t be too careful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Thing two:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m glad her assailant was unarmed, or it could have gone much worse for Megan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Thing three:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m very proud of my girl. She is one tough cookie!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Thing four:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Self defense classes are a really good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my daughter comes home from college today and tells me this tale: &nbsp; I was in the bathroom before class washing my hands, when this woman came in and tried to steal my backpack. I pulled on it to get it back, and she punched me in the face. \u00a0So I punched her in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,215,598,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-milestones","category-netties-world","category-self-defense","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10910,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905\/revisions\/10910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}