{"id":5069,"date":"2009-12-23T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"mom-calls-911-over-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5069-mom-calls-911-over-video-game","title":{"rendered":"Mom calls 911 over video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>When Angela Mejia of Roxbury, Massachusetts woke up around 2:30am on Saturday to find her 14-year old kid up and playing video games, she did the only thing any parent in that situation could possibly do &ndash; she called the cops. It&#8217;s not like they have murderers to catch or anything.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed rebel was playing an undetermined iteration of Grand Theft Auto on an unspecified Playstation model.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Sometimes I want to run away, too,&rdquo; said Mejia, possibly (but probably not) referring to the escapism so many people find in video games. &nbsp;&ldquo;I have support from my church, but I&rsquo;m alone. I want to help my son, but I can&rsquo;t find a way.<\/p>\n<p>According to the boy, the responding officers &ldquo;were just, like, &lsquo;Chill out. Go to bed.&rsquo;&rdquo; His mom should try that next time, now that she knows all the secret code words.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I want to help my son, but I can&#039;t find a way,&quot; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}