{"id":4553,"date":"2009-10-25T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T17:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2009-10-25T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T17:47:40","slug":"maurice-sendak-on-being-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/maurice-sendak-on-being-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Sendak on Being Scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reporter<\/strong>: &#8220;What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sendak<\/strong>: &#8220;I would tell them to go to hell. That&#8217;s a question I will not tolerate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reporter<\/strong>: &#8220;Because kids can handle it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sendak<\/strong>: &#8220;If they can&#8217;t handle it, go home. Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like. But it&#8217;s not a question that can be answered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sendak<\/strong>: &#8220;This concentration on kids being scared, as though we as adults can&#8217;t be scared. Of course we&#8217;re scared. I&#8217;m scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can&#8217;t fall asleep. It never stops. We&#8217;re grown-ups; we know better, but we&#8217;re afraid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reporter<\/strong>: &#8220;Why is that important in art?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sendak<\/strong>: &#8220;Because it&#8217;s truth. You don&#8217;t want to do something that&#8217;s all terrifying. I saw the most horrendous movies that were unfit for child&#8217;s eyes. So what? I managed to survive.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter: &#8220;What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?&#8221; Sendak: &#8220;I would tell them to go to hell. That&#8217;s a question I will not tolerate.&#8221; Reporter: &#8220;Because kids can handle it?&#8221; Sendak: &#8220;If they can&#8217;t handle it, go home. Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1br","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}