{"id":66187,"date":"2017-12-11T16:05:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T21:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66187"},"modified":"2017-12-12T05:08:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T10:08:21","slug":"a-nation-answers-a-sobbing-boys-plea-why-do-they-bully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66187","title":{"rendered":"A Nation Answers a Sobbing Boy\u2019s Plea: \u2018Why Do They Bully?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Kimberly Jones picked up her son, Keaton, from school in the Knoxville, Tenn., area last week, he asked her to record a video of him in the car.<\/p>\n<p>Keaton was going home early \u2014 not for the first time, Ms. Jones said \u2014 because he was afraid to have lunch at school. Classmates, he told his mother, had poured milk on him and stuffed ham in his clothes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey make fun of my nose,\u201d he said in the video, which Ms. Jones posted on Facebook on Friday with a plea for parents to talk to their children about bullying. \u201cThey call me ugly. They say I have no friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do they bully? What\u2019s the point of it? Why do you find joy in taking innocent people and finding a way to be mean to them?\u201d he asked, sobbing. He added: \u201cPeople that are different don\u2019t need to be criticized about it. It\u2019s not their fault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/11\/us\/bullying-video-keaton-jones.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Nation Answers a Sobbing Boy\u2019s Plea: \u2018Why Do They Bully?\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bullying?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bullying<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KeatonJones?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KeatonJones<\/a> if u havent seen the video do so <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3bpNIyb2tc\">https:\/\/t.co\/3bpNIyb2tc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/940270263509442562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Kimberly Jones picked up her son, Keaton, from school in the Knoxville, Tenn., area last week, he asked her to record a video of him in the car. Keaton was going home early \u2014 not for the first time,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=66187\">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":[433,209,94,101,98,129,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-americau-s-a","category-blogging-the-internet","category-children","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66187","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=66187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66190,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66187\/revisions\/66190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}