{"id":15,"date":"2007-03-12T09:33:05","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T16:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/2007\/03\/12\/a-hit-a-palpable-hit\/"},"modified":"2007-03-12T09:33:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T16:33:48","slug":"a-hit-a-palpable-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/2007\/03\/12\/a-hit-a-palpable-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"kids gettin&#8217; hurt in film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am afraid the only movie I watched over break was <em>You and Me and Everyone you Know.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>I didn&#8217;t like it much.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, it was lovely- but I cannot stand movies where children are threatened.\u00c2\u00a0 In real life, horrible things happen to children all the time.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I like to forget about that.\u00c2\u00a0 When a decent movie puts a kid in danger, I get tense and sweaty and worried and it doesn&#8217;t matter what happens to the kid anymore- I am mad at\u00c2\u00a0the movie.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0But I didn&#8217;t mind Beth dying.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps because my mental-Beth is so different from any of the actresses playing her, I never felt that Beth was truly threatened.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe, I don&#8217;t connect with poor little Beth like I should.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Am I just callous?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Kids being hurt in movies- does it make you mad?\u00c2\u00a0 Glad that it raises awareness?\u00c2\u00a0 Do you really like it because you can&#8217;t stand the little buggers?\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am afraid the only movie I watched over break was You and Me and Everyone you Know.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t like it much.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, it was lovely- but I cannot stand movies where children are threatened.\u00c2\u00a0 In real life, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/2007\/03\/12\/a-hit-a-palpable-hit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}