{"id":1213,"date":"2024-08-26T16:29:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T16:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T16:29:40","slug":"monsters-under-lit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/26\/monsters-under-lit\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsters under-lit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"595\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem141-595x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem141-595x1024.jpg 595w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem141-174x300.jpg 174w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem141-768x1321.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem141.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the main tasks of childhood is to learn how to deal with monsters.<br>This is why dinosaurs are so fascinating for children &#8211;<br>they are monsters, concrete and palpable.<br>There is nothing human about them,<br>they kill with teeth and claws, not words, greed and cowardice.<br>They are easy, training monsters,<br>a menace you can understand, a threat without ambivalence.<br>What do you do if you meet a monster?<br>Do you run?<br>Do you fight?<br>Do you train to be stronger than them?<br>Do you learn to be smarter?<br>After going to the Museum of Natural History<br>and learning about T-Rex<br>you couldn&#8217;t stop laughing:<br>running around with your arms pressed into your sides,<br>waving your hands feebly at chest-level,<br>saying, &#8216;itty-bitty hands!&#8217;<br>I think you chose the best option.<br>I think you will be all right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the main tasks of childhood is to learn how to deal with monsters.This is why dinosaurs are so fascinating for children &#8211;they are monsters, concrete and palpable.There is nothing human about them,they kill with teeth and claws, not words, greed and cowardice.They are easy, training monsters,a menace you can understand, a threat without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18,16,23,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}