{"id":12041,"date":"2007-01-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/01\/20\/california-legislator-prepares-bill-to-outlaw-hitting-of-small-children\/"},"modified":"2007-01-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T12:00:00","slug":"california-legislator-prepares-bill-to-outlaw-hitting-of-small-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/01\/20\/california-legislator-prepares-bill-to-outlaw-hitting-of-small-children\/","title":{"rendered":"California Legislator Prepares Bill To Outlaw Hitting of Small Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/111\/story\/110337.html\">www.sacbee.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, January 20, 2006: According to this article in the Sacramento Bee, a bill will be introduced to the California state legislature next week which would make it a misdemeanor for parents to spank, slap, smack, whack or kick a child younger than 4.  The offenses could be punished by a year in jail or a fine up to $1,000.  If this bill is passed, California would be the first state to explicitly ban such treatment of children younger than 4. Ten European countries have such laws.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.sacbee.com SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, January 20, 2006: According to this article in the Sacramento Bee, a bill will be introduced to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}