{"id":2706,"date":"2005-07-26T00:43:57","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T23:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/07\/26\/what-are-their-chances\/"},"modified":"2005-07-26T00:43:57","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T23:43:57","slug":"what-are-their-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/07\/what-are-their-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"What are their chances?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapel-perilous.net\/caiterwauling\/2005_07_01_archive.php#112233412397946770\" rel=\"external\">Miko:<\/a><\/strong> &#8220;A student told me that her friend was killed in the Amagasaki train crash. The friend was a divorced mother of two boys, who was raising her sons together with the help of her family (parents and siblings). The father of the boys hadn&#8217;t initiated any form of contact with them for five years, and had done nothing to contribute to their upkeep.<\/p>\n<p>On the very day of the funeral, he showed up, took his sons, and drove off with them, just like that! And there was nothing that the family could do, not one thing.<\/p>\n<p>All that is known about him is that he is living with a heavily pregnant teenage girlfriend. He doesn&#8217;t allow the boys to have any contact with their grandparents, aunts, or uncles (ie, the only family they&#8217;ve known up till now).<\/p>\n<p>The boys are in line for a large sum of compensation from the rail company. I don&#8217;t know exactly how much, but it&#8217;s a lot of money, running into hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the maternal family has hired a lawyer. I cannot imagine on what grounds they think they are going to get the boys back, but they are determined to try.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miko: &#8220;A student told me that her friend was killed in the Amagasaki train crash. The friend was a divorced mother of two boys, who was raising her sons together with the help of her family (parents and siblings). The father of the boys hadn&#8217;t initiated any form of contact with them for five years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}