{"id":1601,"date":"2003-08-12T09:04:29","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T23:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/12\/brass-knuckles-in-nursing-homes\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:56:23","slug":"brass-knuckles-in-nursing-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/12\/brass-knuckles-in-nursing-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brass knuckles in nursing homes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13793,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/US\\\/South\\\/08\\\/09\\\/beating.reut&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2003\\\/US\\\/South\\\/08\\\/09\\\/beating.reut&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13794,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.safesearching.com\\\/billmaher\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/000030.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041205054005\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.safesearching.com:80\\\/billmaher\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/000030.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 13:40:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 16:44:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 15:50:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 15:50:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>How in the world does anyone, anywhere, at any time, come to the conclusion that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/South\/08\/09\/beating.reut\/\" title=\"CNN.com - Aide beat woman, 81, with brass knuckles, police say - Aug. 9, 2003\">this is acceptable behavior<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  An aide in an Arkansas nursing home allegedly beat an 81-year-old woman with brass knuckles because she had been &#8220;disrespectful,&#8221; police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  An affidavit filed by sheriff&#8217;s detectives charged that Ryan was beaten on July 30 in her room at the Dallas County Nursing Home by Gayla Wilson, 44, who used brass knuckles.<\/p>\n<p>  The affidavit said Wilson complained that Ryan was repeatedly &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; of her.<\/p>\n<p>  Wilson allegedly recruited a second nursing aide, Shermika Rainey, 17, to hold Ryan during the attack.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safesearching.com\/billmaher\/blog\/archives\/000030.html\" title=\"Brassy Employees\">Bill Maher<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aide in an Arkansas nursing home allegedly beat an 81-year-old woman with brass knuckles because she had been &#8216;disrespectful,&#8217; police said Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}