{"id":640,"date":"2007-07-14T08:17:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T15:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=640"},"modified":"2007-07-14T08:17:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T15:17:48","slug":"carlsbad-company-enlists-miss-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Company Enlists Miss New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/jersey1-nbc-full.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/jersey1-nbc-full.jpg','popup','width=400,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/jersey1-nbc-full-tm.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Jersey1 Nbc Full\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isafe.org\" target=\"_blank\">i-Safe<\/a><\/strong>, a Carlsbad-based non-profit organization dedicated to educating to &#8220;responsibly take control of their Internet experiences&#8221; has enlisted the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/aol.tmz.com\/2007\/07\/12\/miss-new-jersey-exposes-blackmail-pics\/\" target=\"_blank\">blackmailed, scandal ridden<\/a><\/strong>, and newly crowned Miss New Jersey <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory?id=3371658\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Polumbo<\/a><\/strong> to &#8220;help raise awareness about victimization of children on the Internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A group called &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anorak.co.uk\/news\/anorak-in-new-york\/175166.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Committee to Save the Miss America Peagent<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; threatened to go public with the photos if Polumbo did not resign her title. Instead, she went public herself and retained the title.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amy is a very courageous young woman,&#8221; says i-SAFE CEO and Program Director <strong>Teri Schroeder<\/strong>. &#8220;Online victimization like bullying, predation, even child pornography is far too common on the Internet. Amy&#8217;s celebrity will have an impact on students and parents as she raises awareness about these disturbing online issues.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice that <strong>i-Safe<\/strong> can look past the photos and see the true headline-grabbing promotion they can get from being involved with this salacious scandal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwire.com\/2.0\/release.do?id=751050&amp;sourceType=1\" target=\"_blank\">Marketwire.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i-Safe, a Carlsbad-based non-profit organization dedicated to educating to &#8220;responsibly take control of their Internet experiences&#8221; has enlisted the blackmailed, scandal ridden, and newly crowned Miss New Jersey Amy Polumbo to &#8220;help raise awareness about victimization of children on the Internet.&#8221; A group called &#8220;The Committee to Save the Miss America Peagent&#8221; threatened to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}