{"id":8405,"date":"2002-12-03T17:20:51","date_gmt":"2002-12-03T22:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/12\/03\/does-it-come-with-a-spell-checker\/"},"modified":"2002-12-03T17:20:51","modified_gmt":"2002-12-03T22:20:51","slug":"does-it-come-with-a-spell-checker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/12\/does-it-come-with-a-spell-checker\/","title":{"rendered":"Does it come with a spell checker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>An Australian retail chain has pulled from its shelves a<br \/>\n&#8220;voodoo doll&#8221; sold to kids together with a list of &#8220;spells&#8221; to chant while<br \/>\nsticking pins into it. The bright green doll, featuring in a Christmas gift<br \/>\ncatalogue of the Sportsgirl fashion chain, caused consternation at schools and<br \/>\namong family groups, prompting the withdrawal decision. It came complete with 17<br \/>\npins and instructions to generate ill-will toward people the doll&#8217;s owner<br \/>\ndisliked. In order to break up a romance, the owner was told to attach pictures<br \/>\nof the couple onto the doll, then stick a pin into its heart while chanting: &#8220;I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t ever want to see your face again.&#8221; By sticking pins into the doll&#8217;s eyes<br \/>\nand chanting, &#8220;It&#8217;s my party and I&#8217;ll cry if I want to,&#8221; the user was told she<br \/>\ncould ruin a party.<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ThisHour.asp#%27Voodoo%20Doll%27%20Christmas%20Gifts%20Withdrawn%20After%20Complaints\"\ntarget=_blank>Full Story<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p>I guess this could be considered a pin<br \/>\npal. At least this horrible idea for a Christmas gift has been removed. The<br \/>\ninstructions are almost funny if it wasn&#8217;t for the vicious undercurrent of<br \/>\nwishing harm on others<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Australian retail chain has pulled from its shelves a &#8220;voodoo doll&#8221; sold to kids together with a list of &#8220;spells&#8221; to chant while sticking pins into it. The bright&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}