{"id":9131,"date":"2014-12-12T12:05:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9131"},"modified":"2014-12-12T12:05:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:05:47","slug":"the-mother-and-the-monster-i-review-the-babadook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/12\/the-mother-and-the-monster-i-review-the-babadook.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Mother and the Monster&#8221;: I review &#8220;The Babadook&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>for AmCon. Should\u2019ve decided in advance how spoilerous I wanted to be; if you haven\u2019t seen it yet, I\u2019d definitely recommend either skipping this review or stopping after the first couple paragraphs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the year\u2019s most widely-praised horror movies, Australia\u2019s \u201cThe Babadook,\u201d methodically chews through a list of terrifying questions: What happens when you can\u2019t protect your child from tragedy and grief? When you can\u2019t protect him from the people around him? From himself? From <em>yourself<\/em>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-mother-and-the-monster-the-babadook\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for AmCon. 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One of the year\u2019s most widely-praised horror movies, Australia\u2019s \u201cThe Babadook,\u201d methodically chews through a list of terrifying questions: What happens when you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17,119,117,387],"class_list":["post-9131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-children-will-listen","tag-horror","tag-mothers","tag-under-capricorn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Mother and the Monster&quot;: I review &quot;The Babadook&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"for AmCon. 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