{"id":42233,"date":"2014-01-24T02:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T02:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_the_toxic_digital_world_that_killed_15_year_old_tallulah_wilso\/"},"modified":"2014-01-24T02:01:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T02:01:53","slug":"london_times_the_toxic_digital_world_that_killed_15_year_old_tallulah_wilso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42233","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) The \u201d\u02dctoxic digital world\u2019 that killed 15 year old Tallulah Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tallulah, an aspiring dancer from West Hampstead in London, threw herself under a train at St Pancras Station on October 14, 2012. Her mother said she had been unable to prevent the troubled teenager from becoming increasingly withdrawn at home and at school, as she developed a fantasy cocaine-taking persona online.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Wilson said: \u201cLike any parent I sought to protect my daughter, seeking help from professionals at her school, the NHS and the Tavistock Clinic. Her sisters and I did everything we could to keep her safe, but she had fallen into a world of nightmares. She was in the c lutches of a toxic digital world where in the final few weeks we could no longer reach her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked by the ease with which Tallulah and other children can access online self-harm and suicide blogs. Tallulah entered a world where the lines between fantasy and reality became blurred. It is every parent\u2019s worst nightmare.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/technology\/internet\/article3983419.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tallulah, an aspiring dancer from West Hampstead in London, threw herself under a train at St Pancras Station on October 14, 2012. Her mother said she had been unable to prevent the troubled teenager from becoming increasingly withdrawn at home<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42233\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,433,175,94,101,111,199,168,104,114,98,129,95,603,110,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-children","category-education","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-suicide","category-teens-youth","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}