{"id":7977,"date":"2003-07-07T13:30:04","date_gmt":"2003-07-07T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/07\/07\/crisis-nursery\/"},"modified":"2003-07-07T13:30:04","modified_gmt":"2003-07-07T18:30:04","slug":"crisis-nursery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/07\/crisis-nursery\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis Nursery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">For 22 years, stressed-out parents in dire need of an emergency timeout from their children have found help at the Bay Area Crisis Nursery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">No matter the hour, the modest but attractive house in Concord has kept its porch light on for parents struggling to maintain their sanity while dealing with a range of pressure-cooker situations, from a lost job to a lost home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Here, parents find a safe haven to leave their children while they take care of other pressing matters or get a needed respite. Parents can leave children for up to 30 days in the care of trained staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">As the only facility of its kind in the Bay Area, the nonprofit organization rolls out its welcome mat to anyone in the nine-county region, with the one caveat being that it only accepts children 5 and younger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Being unable to serve children in the 6 to 11 age group ate away at founder Sister Ann Weltz.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/cctimes\/news\/6248749.htm\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">&#8220;Emergency timeout from their children&#8221; and &#8220;get a needed respite&#8221; are statements that I find as evidence of the total selfishness of our culture.  I know that there are situations where it is a good idea to get children out of the house while the parents sort things through, but in these cases it would be more accurate to say that the children need a emergency time out from their parents.  Up to 30 days seems more like a kennel than a nursery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 22 years, stressed-out parents in dire need of an emergency timeout from their children have found help at the Bay Area Crisis Nursery. No matter the hour, the modest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}