{"id":2655,"date":"2003-04-12T04:04:04","date_gmt":"2003-04-12T04:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2003-04-12T04:04:04","modified_gmt":"2003-04-12T04:04:04","slug":"dangerous_toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><strong>N.Y. Seeks Ban on Liquid-Filled Yo-Yo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The state Consumer Protection Board asked stores Thursday to pull &#8220;water yo-yos&#8221; from their shelves and for the federal government to ban the potentially hazardous novelty items.<\/p>\n<p>Sold in dollar stores, corner stores and on the Internet, the toy features a rubbery, liquid-filled ball of various shapes and colors on an elastic cord.<\/p>\n<p>Children often twirl the toy around their heads, and &#8220;the cord can easily wrap around a child&#8217;s neck,&#8221; said Teresa Santiago, chairwoman of the Consumer Protection Board. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goupstate.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?Date=20030410&#038;Category=APA&#038;ArtNo=304101239&#038;Ref=AR\">GoUpstate.com<\/a>]  [via <a href=\"http:\/\/coolstop.com\/radio\/2003\/04\/11.shtml#a2681\">jennett.radio<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Next thing you know they&#8217;ll want to ban toy phones because the phone cord might strangle you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N.Y. Seeks Ban on Liquid-Filled Yo-Yo The state Consumer Protection Board asked stores Thursday to pull &#8220;water yo-yos&#8221; from their shelves and for the federal government to ban the potentially hazardous novelty items. Sold in dollar stores, corner stores and on the Internet, the toy features a rubbery, liquid-filled ball of various shapes and colors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}