{"id":7334,"date":"2025-09-28T17:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=7334"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:02:52","slug":"my-neighbor-called-cps-because-my-kids-were-playing-in-our-own-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=7334","title":{"rendered":"My Neighbor Called CPS Because My Kids Were Playing in Our Own Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"238\" data-end=\"427\">Marie and her family had just moved into a new neighborhood when one evening, Child Protective Services showed up at their door. The reason? Her kids were playing in <strong data-start=\"404\" data-end=\"426\">their own backyard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"655\">Turns out, a grumpy neighbor couldn&#8217;t stand the sound of children laughing and reported them, falsely claiming the kids were left unattended. But when the social worker arrived, the kids immediately exposed the neighbor\u2019s lie.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"657\" data-end=\"737\">The CPS case was closed on the spot. The neighbor? Embarrassed but unapologetic.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"739\" data-end=\"896\">Marie now wonders how to protect her family from nosy neighbors without escalating conflict \u2014 and hopes others learn that <strong data-start=\"861\" data-end=\"896\">children playing isn&#8217;t a crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie and her family had just moved into a new neighborhood when one evening, Child Protective Services showed up at their door. The reason? Her kids were playing in their own backyard. Turns out, a grumpy neighbor couldn&#8217;t stand the sound of children laughing and reported them, falsely claiming the kids were left unattended. But &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7336,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions\/7336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}