{"id":20126,"date":"2012-04-02T10:25:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T14:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=20126"},"modified":"2012-04-02T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T14:25:34","slug":"the-distant-chaperone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/04\/the-distant-chaperone","title":{"rendered":"The Distant Chaperone"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20136\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20136\" title=\"rob-shepperson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rob-shepperson-250x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rob-shepperson-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rob-shepperson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rob-shepperson.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration by Rob Shepperson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When my wife informed me that she was planning to follow our daughter  down to the Bahamas for spring break I thought she was crazy, even  though chaperoning your kid, from a safe distance, seems to be an  increasingly common phenomenon. Wasn&#8217;t the whole point of the exercise  to experience some sort of coming-of-age moment, to revel in your  freedom from parental oversight, to drink to excess, scuffle with  nightclub bouncers, and perhaps even briefly to find yourself on the  wrong side of the law?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong><em>By RALPH GARDNER JR.<br \/>\nThe Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my wife informed me that she was planning to follow our daughter down to the Bahamas for spring break I thought she was crazy, even though chaperoning your kid, from a safe distance, seems to be an increasingly common phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33,73,295,51],"class_list":["post-20126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2","tag-vacations","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}