{"id":11751,"date":"2021-11-12T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11751"},"modified":"2021-11-14T22:22:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T05:22:03","slug":"something-useful-emerges-from-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/12\/something-useful-emerges-from-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Useful Emerges From TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/08\/us\/tiktok-hand-signal-abduction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-5a21a075\">Missing Girl Is Rescued After Using Hand Signal From TikTok<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-summary\">The girl flashed the hand signal from a car on a Kentucky interstate, the authorities said. It was created as a way for people to indicate that they are at risk of abuse and need help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/daniel-victor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daniel Victor<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/eduardo-medina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eduardo Medina<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2021\/12\/08\/multimedia\/08xp-rescue-3\/08xp-rescue-3-articleLarge.png?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Credit&#8230; Canadian Women&#8217;s Foundation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A girl reported missing from Asheville, N.C., and in distress in the passenger seat of a car traveling through Kentucky appeared to be waving through the window to passing cars on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But one person in a nearby car recognized the signal from TikTok, and knew it was no ordinary wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girl, 16, was using a new distress signal, tucking her thumb into her palm before closing her fingers over it, according to the Laurel County Sheriff\u2019s Office. The signal,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/canadianwomen.org\/signal-for-help\/\" target=\"_blank\">created by the Canadian Women\u2019s Foundation<\/a>\u00a0for people to indicate that they are at risk of abuse and need help, has spread largely through TikTok in the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/08\/us\/tiktok-hand-signal-abduction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Missing Girl Is Rescued After Using Hand Signal From TikTok The girl flashed the hand signal from a car on a Kentucky interstate, the authorities said. It was created as a way for people to indicate that they are at risk of abuse and need help. By\u00a0Daniel Victor\u00a0and\u00a0Eduardo Medina A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}