{"id":3531,"date":"2013-04-30T20:49:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T03:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2013-04-30T20:49:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T03:49:55","slug":"stapleton-parents-organizing-boycott-of-faux-sleep-over-birthday-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=3531","title":{"rendered":"Stapleton Parents Organizing Boycott of Faux Sleep-Over Birthday Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sleep-over.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sleep-over-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sleep over\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3532\" \/><\/a>A large contingent sleep deprived parents are petitioning the MCA to immediately ban the growing incidents of &#8220;faux&#8221; sleep-over birthday parties or &#8220;The Faux&#8221;.  &#8220;The Faux&#8221; are defined as a late afternoon\/early evening party, where children attend, dressed in pajamas, filled with incredible amounts of sugary products and then returned to their parents around 9:30pm or 10pm. One concerned parent has coined the phrase: &#8220;Faux F..kover&#8221;.\n<!--more-->\n&#8220;Are you kidding me?&#8221; voiced parent Greg Miller, &#8220;This is complete bulls..t.  &#8220;Man up and take my kid for the night.  You can&#8217;t jack my kid up with games, soda and cake and put him back in my lap.  They are destroyed the next day after a crappy night&#8217;s sleep,&#8221; complained the parents of twin boys, Alison O\u2019Neil.  &#8220;I spend at least $20 per week buying presents for birthday parties, at least you can make pancakes for them the next morning&#8221;.\nThe petition has been signed by over 560 concerned parents to immediately ban &#8220;The Faux&#8221;. Penalties include adding parents that suggest &#8220;The Faux&#8221; to a black list and publishing their names in the Front Porch and revoking their membership from Stapleton Mom&#8217;s.  Acceptable parties would include providing a complete sleep-over party experience with a drop off of no later then 6pm, with children staying up until at least 10:30pm and a morning wake-up of no later than 6:30am, breakfast included and a parent pick up after 9:30am.  This would allow the dropping parent(s) to enjoy a night out and a full night&#8217;s sleep and a morning work-out at the Bladium.  &#8220;This makes total sense&#8221;, complimented parent Wanda Smyth, &#8220;I hope the MCA considers this reasonable proposal soon&#8221;.\nMCA community liaison, Jamie McGovern is taking the petition very seriously.  &#8220;Tired kids and pissed off parents are two of the major causes of domestic violence in our community&#8221;, stated Ms. Jones.  &#8220;Unfortunately, this petition is fourth on our list after The Bouncy House Ban, Parents Against Birthday Parties in Thornton and We Hate the Aurora Chuckie Cheese&#8221;.\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-54","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}