{"id":347,"date":"2007-04-23T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=347"},"modified":"2007-04-23T13:54:34","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T20:54:34","slug":"melissa-busekros-happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/melissa-busekros-happy-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Busekros &#8212; Happy Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnd.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55343\">Homeschooler flees Germany&#8217;s state custody<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Melissa Busekros, the schoolgirl taken by police and placed in a psychiatric hospital because she was diagnosed with a &#8220;school phobia&#8221; and was being homeschooled, has fled state custody to make a midnight trip back to her own family, according to Joel Thornton, president of The International Human Rights Group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At 3 a.m., in Erlangen, Germany, Melissa reached her home to the surprise of her entire family,&#8221; Thornton told WND. &#8220;Earlier in the morning Melissa left a note with the foster family where she was being held and began the journey to her family. She left of her own volition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thornton said April 23 is Melissa&#8217;s birthday, and on turning 16, &#8220;this gives her broader rights than it does in America. It gives her more of a voice in her own custody. So, she decided to return home.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeschooler flees Germany&#8217;s state custody Melissa Busekros, the schoolgirl taken by police and placed in a psychiatric hospital because she was diagnosed with a &#8220;school phobia&#8221; and was being homeschooled, has fled state custody to make a midnight trip back to her own family, according to Joel Thornton, president of The International Human Rights Group. &#8230; <a title=\"Melissa Busekros &#8212; Happy Birthday!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/melissa-busekros-happy-birthday\/\" aria-label=\"More on Melissa Busekros &#8212; Happy Birthday!\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-5B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}