{"id":268,"date":"2008-10-11T19:33:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T02:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2008-10-11T19:36:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T02:36:45","slug":"scary-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/11\/scary-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; sCaRy mOmEnTs &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.armanbohn.com\/blog\/pictures\/2008_10_11_a.jpg\" alt=\"... not cool ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we creep closer to a cultural celebration of all things menacing and evil, I can&#8217;t help but to look back at the foundations of my own fears.  I&#8217;m not talking about George Dubya II fears here.  I&#8217;m talkin&#8217; full on real deal fears.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disturbing childhood moment #1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I clearly remember watching the original &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; series after school as a child.  I was probably six or seven.  One of the episodes involved a misbehaving teenager that had highly developed psychic abilities.  He didn&#8217;t like it when people laughed at him, so he decided to take away the mouths (and apparently the entire faces) of the offending party.<\/p>\n<p>The above image is from that particular episode.  I remember the scene all too well.  In my mind it seemed to be a very important scene that lasted for an extended period of time.  Upon reviewing it today, I think think that faceless woman in the miniskirt is on screen for about 2.2 seconds.  A muffled groaning sound can be heard eminating from beneath the skin.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that was enough to leave a lasting impression on me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we creep closer to a cultural celebration of all things menacing and evil, I can&#8217;t help but to look back at the foundations of my own fears. I&#8217;m not talking about George Dubya II fears here. I&#8217;m talkin&#8217; full &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/11\/scary-moments\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230; sCaRy mOmEnTs &#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288],"tags":[388,389,387],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddities","tag-faceless-people","tag-scary-stuff","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}