{"id":841,"date":"2009-12-20T14:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T19:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2016-06-07T07:11:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T12:11:43","slug":"twitter-mom-tweets-while-son-drowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/twitter\/twitter-mom-tweets-while-son-drowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter News: Mother Tweets While Son Drowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what could be another new low for self-centered and obsessive social networking, CNN is reporting that a mother in Florida was busy on Twitter while her 2 year old son was helplessly drowning in the family&#8217;s backyard pool.<\/p>\n<p>Then, within minutes of discovering her son&#8217;s death, the social networking mother was back on Twitter posting tweets like this one: &#8220;Please Pray my son fell in the pool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shelley Ross, was tweeting away when she should have been keeping her attention on the whereabouts of her 2 year old son.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, parenting and tweeting don&#8217;t mix.<\/p>\n<p>[ Video: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/?\/video\/us\/2009\/12\/19\/trenkmann.fl.mom.tweet.cnn\">CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what could be another new low for self-centered and obsessive social networking, CNN is reporting that a mother in Florida was busy on Twitter while her 2 year old son was helplessly drowning in the family&#8217;s backyard pool. Then, within minutes of discovering her son&#8217;s death, the social networking mother was back on Twitter [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/twitter\/twitter-mom-tweets-while-son-drowns\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Twitter News: Mother Tweets While Son Drowns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5959,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/5959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}