{"id":858,"date":"2010-01-03T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2010-01-03T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T14:31:00","slug":"killing-monsters-gerard-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Killing Monsters (Gerard Jones)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/S0CqU4LS54I\/AAAAAAAAEUg\/EnLo0XqkcGE\/s1600-h\/killingmonsters.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/S0CqU4LS54I\/AAAAAAAAEUg\/EnLo0XqkcGE\/s400\/killingmonsters.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>A very interesting polemic against all the scare stories saying (eg) &#8216;video games make children violent&#8217;. Jones&#8217; argument, if I manage to summarise it fairly, is essentially that children require &#8220;violent&#8221; fantasy in order to process the very real extremes of emotion that modern life puts them through &#8211; and that removing fantasy violence makes them more emotionally crippled. I found it a very plausible analysis. Recommended.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very interesting polemic against all the scare stories saying (eg) &#8216;video games make children violent&#8217;. Jones&#8217; argument, if I manage to summarise it fairly, is essentially that children require &#8220;violent&#8221; fantasy in order to process the very real extremes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=858\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,65,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-horror","category-sf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-dQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}