{"id":10759,"date":"2011-12-13T16:37:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T08:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10759"},"modified":"2011-12-13T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T08:37:47","slug":"the-horror-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/12\/the-horror-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Horror Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10760\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/913.jpg?resize=207%2C155\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/913.jpg?w=259&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/913.jpg?resize=96%2C72&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A paradox of horror flicks:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The victims are also the hero(ines), <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">who despite being very afraid, are also very brave. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If not, there would be no dramatic tension!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The above applies to those who love-hate horror flicks too!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Blogged about this somewhat some time back<br \/>\nbut while watching one episode of &#8216;American Horror Story&#8217;,<br \/>\nthought it might be worth mentioning again.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paradox of horror flicks: The victims are also the hero(ines), who despite being very afraid, are also very brave&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[118,146],"class_list":["post-10759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fear","tag-paradox","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}