{"id":5906,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/she-punched-the-referee\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:15","slug":"she-punched-the-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/she-punched-the-referee\/","title":{"rendered":"She Punched The Referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pattie Pollard Ash of Greensboro, NC, really wanted her son to do well in soccer.  Watching him play a game one day, she took offense at the referee&#8217;s &#8220;unfair&#8221; calls.  She also took action: running out onto the field, she punched the official in the mouth.  The official was &#8230; 15 years old.  Socking that kid didn&#8217;t play well with the judge, who convicted this overeager soccer mom of assault.  She was fined and &#8230; banned from all soccer games for three years  &#8212; a catastrophic punishment for a mother of this sort.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p>The O&#8217;Reilly Factor, Bill 0&#8217;Reilly, p. 115.  Contributed by Dr. John Bardsley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pattie Pollard Ash of Greensboro, NC, really wanted her son to do well in soccer. Watching him play a game one day, she took offense at the referee&#8217;s &#8220;unfair&#8221; calls. She also took action: running out onto the field, she punched the official in the mouth. The official was &#8230; 15 years old. Socking that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,2728,268,703],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}