{"id":15937,"date":"2016-10-10T17:05:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15937"},"modified":"2016-10-10T17:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:16:28","slug":"i-think-i-know-the-source-of-the-clown-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/10\/10\/i-think-i-know-the-source-of-the-clown-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"I think I know the source of the clown scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might not fit strictly the definition of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moral_panic\">moral panic<\/a>&#8220;, or maybe it does.\u00c2\u00a0 There is an epidemic clown sightings, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/10\/06\/health\/clown-scare-parents-guide-trnd\/\">creepy creepy clowns &#8212; reported by &#8220;the kids&#8221; all over America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the &#8220;clown scare&#8221; problem as stemming from a psychological projection out of current events.\u00c2\u00a0 What creepy clown is running around out there that &#8220;the kids&#8221; are being bombarded by in the news media in this, the year 2016?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>You know who looks like a total moron right now?\u00c2\u00a0 Ted Cruz.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a guy who took a &#8220;brave principled stance&#8221;, risked and received boos at the Republican Convention by not endorsing him during his convention, obviously weighing his future political prospects against a possible Donald Trump implosion, and then at about the time Trump seemed to be riding high apparently reconsidered his political position and endorsed Trump, and now???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might not fit strictly the definition of &#8220;moral panic&#8220;, or maybe it does.\u00c2\u00a0 There is an epidemic clown sightings, creepy creepy clowns &#8212; reported by &#8220;the kids&#8221; all over America. I understand the &#8220;clown scare&#8221; problem as stemming from a psychological projection out of current events.\u00c2\u00a0 What creepy clown is running around out there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15940,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15937\/revisions\/15940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}