{"id":313749,"date":"2014-09-18T02:21:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T07:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=313749"},"modified":"2014-09-19T02:27:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T07:27:22","slug":"vikings-place-adrian-peterson-on-exempt-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=313749","title":{"rendered":"Mother: Peterson &#8220;Trying Hard to be a Good Parent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/09\/thumb_adrian_peterson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/09\/thumb_adrian_peterson-150x117.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_adrian_peterson\" width=\"150\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-313452\" \/><\/a>HOUSTON (AP\/Staff) \u2014 Adrian Peterson&#8217;s mother is defending the Minnesota Vikings running back in the wake of child abuse allegations against him, saying that he is &#8220;trying hard to be a good parent.&#8221; In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, Bonita Jackson of Spring, Texas, said she and Peterson&#8217;s father, Nelson Peterson, were &#8220;big disciplinarians&#8221; who used hands, switches, and belts to occasionally spank all six of her children. Jackson, who is 50, said most parents discipline their children a little excessively sometimes, but they are trying to prepare their children &#8220;for the real world.&#8221; In her words, &#8220;When you whip those you love, it&#8217;s not about abuse, but love.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP\/Staff) \u2014 Adrian Peterson&#8217;s mother is defending the Minnesota Vikings running back in the wake of child abuse allegations against him, saying that he is &#8220;trying hard to be a good parent.&#8221; In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, Bonita Jackson of Spring, Texas, said she and Peterson&#8217;s father, Nelson Peterson, were &#8220;big disciplinarians&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=313749\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mother: Peterson &#8220;Trying Hard to be a Good Parent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 17:53:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313749"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313919,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313749\/revisions\/313919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}