{"id":1117,"date":"2009-06-25T18:43:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T23:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2009-06-25T18:43:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T23:43:01","slug":"karen-answers-kevin-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"Karen answers Kevin B"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"cmtinfo\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Comment by Kevin B on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:01 pm<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Hi Karen,<\/div>\n<div>I just finished reading Switching Time. What a powerful realization on what abuse is. I am twenty, never been abused but have a friend who was. I believe it\u2019s important that people share stories like yours. Switching Time was an educational experience for me. I believe I will be a better friend now that I have a understanding of what abuse can do. Thank you Dr. Baer and Karen.<\/div>\n<div>Kevin B.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Dear Kevin,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I agree, <em>Switching Time<\/em> is a powerful depiction of what abuse can do. \u00a0It&#8217;s important to know what can happen when\u00a0a child is repeatedly abused. \u00a0I&#8217;m glad to hear that you weren&#8217;t abused yourself.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I admire you for acknowledging your friend&#8217;s abuse and caring enough to share your thoughts. \u00a0You are a great friend for taking the time to care and learn about child abuse in order to be a better friend.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Thank you for your compliments and for sharing that <em>Switching Time<\/em> was an educational experience for you. \u00a0Dr. Baer and I truly appreciate hearing from you. \u00a0It is my hope to continue to share my story in an attempt to help others with their own journey to wellness.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Karen<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment by Kevin B on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:01 pm Hi Karen, I just finished reading Switching Time. What a powerful realization on what abuse is. I am twenty, never been abused but have a friend who was. I believe it\u2019s important that people share stories like yours. Switching Time was an educational experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karens-answers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchingtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}