{"id":2389,"date":"2009-01-29T19:42:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T00:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2009-01-29T19:42:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T00:42:30","slug":"the-horror-the-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2389","title":{"rendered":"The horror! The horror!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our friend Loren Eaton<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/isawlightningfall.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/conservatives-discover-horror.html\">writes about the horror genre today<\/a> over at his blog, <i>I Saw Lightning Fall<\/i>. He argues that conservatives ought to embrace the genre, quoting Stephen King saying that horror is intrinsically conservative. He also embeds a trailer for a horror film that seems to have a pro-life message (it appears to have been out since August last. Has anyone heard of it? Did it go straight to DVD, as one would expect would happen to a conservative flick?).<\/p>\n<p>Now, as you know, I don&#8217;t care for horror at all myself, largely because I&#8217;m a fraidy-cat. Life is already scarier than I like; why should I pay somebody to make me afraid?<\/p>\n<p>But you folks out there; normal people&#8211;what do <i>you <\/i>think about horror?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Loren Eaton writes about the horror genre today over at his blog, I Saw Lightning Fall. He argues that conservatives ought to embrace the genre, quoting Stephen King saying that horror is intrinsically conservative. He also embeds a trailer for a horror film that seems to have a pro-life message (it appears to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The horror! The horror!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}