{"id":2599,"date":"2022-01-25T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T09:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2025-05-27T17:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:47:17","slug":"william-stead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/2022\/01\/25\/william-stead\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedtime Stories: William Stead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/sleep_tight.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4213\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/sleep_tight.png 800w, https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/sleep_tight-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/sleep_tight-768x430.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Two hundred years ago, it was very easy to make friends, especially if a man wanted a girl for a friend. She had to be older than eleven, but maybe, well, what does eleven really mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On London&#8217;s Fleet Street, a man could arrange to take a girl home to play with. If he liked her a lot, he could buy her and keep her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/William-Thomas-Stead-1890.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/William-Thomas-Stead-1890.webp 400w, https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/William-Thomas-Stead-1890-300x225.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>William worked at a newspaper. He thought, maybe men shouldn&#8217;t play so much with girls. He alerted his readers that it really is possible to buy a girl in London, and to prove it, he bought one for only 5\u00a3, and sent her to France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William&#8217;s newspaper story made many people angry. They were upset find out that old men, sometimes famous and powerful men, were buying girls and playing with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So William was arrested and put in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The End<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two hundred years ago, it was easier to make friends, because you could buy them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[13,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4215,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/4215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}