{"id":403,"date":"2005-06-25T14:02:39","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=403"},"modified":"2005-06-25T14:03:06","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T18:03:06","slug":"gruesome-discovery-in-the-trunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Gruesome discovery in the trunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really didn&#8217;t think it was ever possible to suffocate in the trunk of a car, as all the trunks I&#8217;ve seen on cars really don&#8217;t look all that airtight.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/06\/25\/missing.boys\/index.html\">Turns out it&#8217;s VERY possible, and has actually happened to three young boys.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>::shudder::<\/p>\n<p>This would explain why new cars are required to have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delphi.com\/pdf\/i\/latch_trunk_er.pdf\">emergency release latch in the trunk<\/a>.   And why some safety oganizations are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsandcars.org\/trunc\/install.htm\">advocating the installation of trunk release mechanisms on older cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three children found dead in a trunk in southern NJ; police say the kids suffocated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}