{"id":500,"date":"2009-05-17T07:28:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2009-05-17T07:28:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T15:28:42","slug":"when-a-child-plays-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"When A Child Plays &#8220;Funeral&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\">One day, six-year-old Jennifer took out her scissors and made paper dolls. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\">She made little girl dolls and boy dolls and grown-up dolls too.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\">When she started taking the dolls and putting them under pieces of paper, her parents began to worry\u2026all the while, Jennifer talked about the dolls dying and being buried.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\">She was playing \u201cfuneral\u201d.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\">Once her parents made the connection to Jennifer\u2019s aunt, who had died two months earlier, they relaxed. They understood that Jennifer was attempting to adjust to the loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia\" lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/\/?page_id=75\" target=\"_blank\">Melanie Hack<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor of <a href=\"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Who Killed My Sister, My friend<\/a><br \/>\nRead an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melaniehack.com\/blog\/?page_id=74\" target=\"_blank\">excerpt now<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/\/?page_id=83\" target=\"_blank\">TV Shows and Clips<\/a> about the Death of Cindy James<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, six-year-old Jennifer took out her scissors and made paper dolls. She made little girl dolls and boy dolls and grown-up dolls too. When she started taking the dolls and putting them under pieces of paper, her parents began to worry\u2026all the while, Jennifer talked about the dolls dying and being buried. She was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-teens-and-grief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melaniehack.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}