{"id":15,"date":"2007-09-17T01:42:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T01:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/2007\/09\/17\/no_gremlins\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T02:52:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T02:52:56","slug":"no_gremlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/2007\/09\/17\/no_gremlins\/","title":{"rendered":"No Gremlins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of the time, Peter didn’t restrict our reading or viewing. (Other than the fact that we didn’t own a TV from the time I was small ’til mid-high school–but we were allowed to watch TV at friends’ houses.) We had the full run of his bookshelves; I was reading his old science fiction as soon as I could read, and I read his copies of the Illuminatus!<\/cite> trilogy at age 14 or so.<\/p>\n

But there were two specific movies that he was hesitant about.<\/p>\n

One was the time when he wanted to go see Prince of the City<\/cite>. I wanted to go along, though I knew nothing about the movie. He told me that he would take me to it (it was rated R, for violence I think), but that I probably wouldn’t enjoy it very much; it was aimed at grownups, and there wouldn’t be much for a kid to appreciate, and that I might like it more when I was older. Which, of course, made me more interested in seeing it–though I vaguely think there had been a couple of books that he’d said that about, that I had refrained from reading. So I went along with him to the movie, and he was right; I didn’t like it.<\/p>\n

The other case was more extreme: he explicitly forbade us to see the movie Gremlins<\/cite>, I think on the grounds that it was too violent or too gory or something. Of all the movies in the world, I never understood why that one was the only one he ever told us we weren’t allowed to see. I never did see it–never had any interest in it–though I heard a lot about it from friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of the time, Peter didn’t restrict our reading or viewing. (Other than the fact that we didn’t own a TV from the time I was small ’til mid-high school–but we were allowed to watch TV at friends’ houses.) We had the full run of his bookshelves; I was reading his old science fiction as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}