{"id":4697,"date":"2011-11-08T17:56:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T01:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2011-12-02T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T23:37:26","slug":"remember-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/remember-the-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(ESPN) This is not about Joe Paterno.\u00a0If these boys really were molested, groped and raped by a middle-aged ex-Penn State football coach, then whatever misjudgment Paterno made will be a single lit match compared to the bonfire these boys will walk in for years to come.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Many of them won&#8217;t be able to trust. Won&#8217;t be able to love. Won&#8217;t be able to feel &#8212; nor trust or love themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t feel sorry for Paterno. He&#8217;s had his life. Feel sorry for these boys, because they may never get one.<\/p>\n<p>Ask former NHL All-Star Theo Fleury, who has reached out on Twitter and radio to the alleged victims of Jerry Sandusky. Fleury was sexually molested once or twice a week for two years by his youth hockey coach, Graham James. It twisted Fleury so inside-out that he numbed himself for years with booze, cocaine and strippers. He blew much of the $50 million he made in the NHL trying to forget. The coach he&#8217;d entrusted his hockey dreams to flayed open his soul for his own sexual perversions and left Fleury hollow.<\/p>\n<p>Read Full Article <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espn\/story\/_\/id\/7208581\/rick-reilly-penn-state-scandal\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember the Children<br \/>\nBy Rick Reilly<br \/>\nESPN.com<br \/>\nNovember 2, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ESPN) This is not about Joe Paterno.\u00a0If these boys really were molested, groped and raped by a middle-aged ex-Penn State football coach, then whatever misjudgment Paterno made will be a single lit match compared to the bonfire these boys will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/remember-the-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[334,338,227,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joe-paterno","category-penn-state","category-victim-expression","category-victim-support","wp-image-borders"],"views":499,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4914,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions\/4914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}