{"id":487,"date":"2025-08-23T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:52:50","slug":"my-neighbors-kid-wouldnt-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"My Neighbor\u2019s Kid Wouldn\u2019t Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">For weeks, my&nbsp;neighbor\u2019s son kept ringing my&nbsp;doorbell and running away. When I&nbsp;told his mom about&nbsp;it, she said, \u201cHe\u2019s just being a&nbsp;boy. You\u2019re overreacting.\u201d The next morning, he&nbsp;went home crying because&nbsp;I made a&nbsp;giant <em><strong>Beware of&nbsp;Dog<\/strong><\/em> sign and taped it&nbsp;to&nbsp;my&nbsp;front door. Then I&nbsp;downloaded some barking sounds on&nbsp;my&nbsp;phone and played them when my&nbsp;doorbell rang. When I&nbsp;peeked through the window, I&nbsp;saw the boy standing frozen, eyes wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Later that evening, I\u00a0got a\u00a0furious text from his mom: \u201cWas that really necessary? He\u2019s been crying all afternoon!\u201d I\u00a0just wanted it\u00a0to\u00a0stop without having to\u00a0play games. Did I\u00a0go too far?Brad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For weeks, my&nbsp;neighbor\u2019s son kept ringing my&nbsp;doorbell and running away. When I&nbsp;told his mom about&nbsp;it, she said, \u201cHe\u2019s just being a&nbsp;boy. You\u2019re overreacting.\u201d The next morning, he&nbsp;went&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":706,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}