{"id":121,"date":"2006-09-11T15:06:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T15:06:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"1158001578","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1158001578\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk culture &#39;is poisoning our children&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sinister cocktail of junk food, marketing, over-competitive schooling and electronic entertainment is poisoning childhood, a powerful lobby of academics and children&#39;s experts says today. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=B3EFVPEMJWTDRQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=\/news\/2006\/09\/12\/njunk112.xml\">letter to The Daily Telegraph<\/a>, 110 teachers, psychologists, children&#39;s authors and other experts call on the Government to act to prevent the death of childhood. They write: &#8220;We are deeply concerned at the escalating incidence of childhood depression and children&#39;s behavioural and developmental conditions.&#8221; The group, which includes Philip Pullman, blames a failure by politicians and public alike to understand how children develop. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2006\/09\/12\/njunk12.xml\">Read more<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sinister cocktail of junk food, marketing, over-competitive schooling and electronic entertainment is poisoning childhood, a powerful lobby of academics and children&#39;s experts says today. In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, 110 teachers, psychologists, children&#39;s authors and other experts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/1158001578\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}