{"id":11061,"date":"2014-03-20T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T15:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/03\/20\/fear-is-a-wonderful-thing-in-small-doses-you\/"},"modified":"2014-03-20T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T15:47:02","slug":"fear-is-a-wonderful-thing-in-small-doses-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/03\/20\/fear-is-a-wonderful-thing-in-small-doses-you\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Fear is a wonderful thing, in small doses. You ride the ghost train into the darkness, knowing that eventually the doors will open and you will step out into the daylight once again. It\u2019s always reassuring to know that you\u2019re still here, still safe. That nothing strange has happened, not really. It\u2019s good to be a child again, for a little while, and to fear \u2014 not governments, not regulations, not infidelities or accountants or distant wars, but ghosts and such things that don\u2019t exist, and even if they do, can do nothing to hurt us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><strong>Neil Gaiman<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/20\/neil-gaiman-ghost-stories\/\">reads a beautiful essay on why scary stories appeal to us and talks about the art of fear in children\u2019s books<\/a>. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/explore.noodle.org\/\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fear is a wonderful thing, in small doses. You ride the ghost train into the darkness, knowing that eventually the doors will open and you will step out into the daylight once again. It\u2019s always reassuring to know that you\u2019re still here, still safe. That nothing strange has happened, not really. It\u2019s good to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/03\/20\/fear-is-a-wonderful-thing-in-small-doses-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1470,11],"class_list":["post-11061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-quotes","tag-writing","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}