{"id":23601,"date":"2014-11-26T05:07:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T10:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23601"},"modified":"2014-11-17T08:08:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T13:08:45","slug":"kindertrauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23601","title":{"rendered":"Kindertrauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/kindertrauma-103x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kindertrauma Clown\" width=\"103\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Got several hours to kill and a desire to dredge up long-suppressed childhood fears?  Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kindertrauma.com\/\">Kindertrauma<\/a>.  With the slogan, &#8220;Your happy childhood ends here,&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KINDERTRAUMA is about the movies, books, and toys that scared you when you were a kid. It&#8217;s also about kids in scary movies, both as heroes and villains. And everything else that&#8217;s traumatic to a tyke!<\/p>\n<p>Through reviews, stories, artwork, and testimonials, we mean to remind you of all the things you once tried so hard to forget&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The site is a trove of childhood horror, from ostensible &#8220;children&#8217;s movies&#8221; that are awfully dark for kids (I&#8217;m looking at you, <i>Watership Down<\/i>), to glimpses of grown-up TV shows, to the gory comic books published in the heady days before the CCA.  Site hosts Unkle Lancifer and Aunt John publish their own writeups of kid-scarring media, but users are encouraged to submit their own Traumafessions.  There&#8217;s also a helpful &#8220;Name That Trauma&#8221; feature: If you can&#8217;t remember the title of a book or movie that scared you as a kid, you can describe whatever details you recall and crowdsource an answer.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts conduct occasional interviews with horror bloggers and other notables in the industry (my favorite line so far: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what dark entities Sid &#038; Marty Krofft spent time in the thrall of, but everything they made to entertain kids is tinged with this unearthly, utterly alien sensibility&#8221;), and there&#8217;s a &#8220;Name That Traumatot&#8221; picture-identification game.<\/p>\n<p>After you&#8217;ve worked your way through the site archives, be sure to check out their fantastically lengthy blogroll of other horror-friendly sites.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m somewhat miffed that my own childhood-warping movie, <i>The Beast with Five Fingers<\/i>, doesn&#8217;t seem to be included in their archives.  I may have to submit a Traumafession of my very own.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Hat tip to cookie)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got several hours to kill and a desire to dredge up long-suppressed childhood fears? Check out Kindertrauma. With the slogan, &#8220;Your happy childhood ends here,&#8221; KINDERTRAUMA is about the movies, books, and toys that scared you when you were a kid. It&#8217;s also about kids in scary movies, both as heroes and villains. And everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23652,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601\/revisions\/23652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}