{"id":349102,"date":"2015-04-30T17:56:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T22:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=349102"},"modified":"2015-05-01T17:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T22:15:01","slug":"public-punishment-for-13-year-old-pot-smoker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=349102","title":{"rendered":"Public Punishment for 13-Year-Old Pot Smoker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/weedkid_1430413145792_277259_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/weedkid_1430413145792_277259_ver1.0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"weedkid_1430413145792_277259_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-349103\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; A Longview father delivers a public punishment to his 13-year-old son after he was caught smoking marijuana.   According to KETK, Travis Simmering made his son Christian stand in various public locations Thursday with a sign that read,  &#8220;I&#8217;ve been smoking weed. I&#8217;m only 13.&#8221;  Mr. Simmering says reaction was overwhelmingly positive.  He remarks, &#8220;We&#8217;ve had a lot of response.  We&#8217;ve had people pray with us.  We&#8217;ve had people just come hug him&#8230; And I think he&#8217;s got a lot of information out of it, a lot of good out of it too.&#8221;  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>And according to Christian, the tactic taught him a lot. &#8220;For everyone who thinks what my parents did was wrong, it wasn&#8217;t,&#8221; said Christian. &#8220;Maybe you shouldn&#8217;t think that was the only punishment I got. It helped me realize that there is more to drugs than I thought. Complete strangers came to me and told me about their past troubles and now I can truly say people other than just my family love me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; A Longview father delivers a public punishment to his 13-year-old son after he was caught smoking marijuana. According to KETK, Travis Simmering made his son Christian stand in various public locations Thursday with a sign that read, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been smoking weed. I&#8217;m only 13.&#8221; Mr. Simmering says reaction was overwhelmingly positive. He remarks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=349102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Public Punishment for 13-Year-Old Pot Smoker<\/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-349102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 04:49:30","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\/349102","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=349102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349109,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349102\/revisions\/349109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}