{"id":95,"date":"2014-05-05T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T12:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2014-08-21T11:11:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T11:11:48","slug":"the-naughty-seat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/?page_id=95","title":{"rendered":"The Naughty Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;d been a bad boy; a very bad boy. They needed to sort out his behaviour before it got out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>First, they&#8217;d tried giving him a good telling off, but he\u2019d just ignored them. Then they\u2019d tried fining him. They&#8217;d even tried locking him in a small room for ever-increasing lengths of time. Nothing had worked, in fact his behaviour seemed to have got worse as each day passed. There was only one thing left to do. He had to go on the naughty seat.<\/p>\n<p>The naughty seat always worked. Two thousand volts always sorted out their nonsense.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/KM-square-e1408618083887.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-588 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/KM-square-e1408618083887.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Magee Author\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a>Author&#8217;s note.<\/strong>\u00a0The electric chair is still used in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. However, some of these states, \u00a0including Florida and South Carolina, allow inmates to choose between electrocution and lethal injection.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Read the next drabble &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/?page_id=104\" title=\"First Flight\">First Flight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;d been a bad boy; a very bad boy. They needed to sort out his behaviour before it got out of hand. First, they&#8217;d tried giving him a good telling off, but he\u2019d just ignored them. Then they\u2019d tried fining him. They&#8217;d even tried locking him in a small room for ever-increasing lengths of time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":78,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/597"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenmageeauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}