{"id":19971,"date":"2015-02-13T05:06:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=19971"},"modified":"2015-02-13T05:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:06:26","slug":"the-strange-case-of-alecia-faith-pennington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/13\/the-strange-case-of-alecia-faith-pennington\/","title":{"rendered":"The strange case of Alecia Faith Pennington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young woman takes to YouTube to bemoan her total lack of government ID and ask for aid from the public. She says her parents will not help her get the government docs that will enable her to work, fly, bank, file taxes, etc..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2015\/02\/alecia-faith-pennington-mom-lisa-dad-help-me-prove-it-youtube-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Some of the basics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Help-Me-Prove-It\/882732628415890?_fb_noscript=1\" target=\"_blank\">Her F*c*b**k page<\/a>, with updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homeschoolersanonymous.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/11\/james-and-lisa-pennington-respond-to-identification-abuse-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parents deny her assertions about them<\/a>. But much moon-battery and creepitude appears to be involved.<\/p>\n<p>The family seems amazingly messed up, which means a sideshow becomes the main attraction.<\/p>\n<p>The real question, of course, is why anyone requires such lifelong &#8220;official&#8221; recognition from government merely to function in everyday life. <i>That&#8217;s<\/i> the gigantic, trumpeting woolly mammoth in the room that everyone&#8217;s managing to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to Alecia Faith and her family. Good luck to us all.<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T to D.A.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young woman takes to YouTube to bemoan her total lack of government ID and ask for aid from the public. She says her parents will not help her get the government docs that will enable her to work, fly, bank, file taxes, etc.. Some of the basics. Her F*c*b**k page, with updates. Parents deny her assertions about them. But much moon-battery and creepitude appears to be involved. The family seems amazingly messed up, which means a sideshow becomes the main attraction. The real question, of course, is why anyone requires such lifelong &#8220;official&#8221; recognition from government merely to function in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/13\/the-strange-case-of-alecia-faith-pennington\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The strange case of Alecia Faith Pennington<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}