{"id":1453,"date":"2007-01-16T12:38:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/16\/the-chicken-or-the-egg\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T12:40:28","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T17:40:28","slug":"the-chicken-or-the-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/16\/the-chicken-or-the-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"The chicken or the egg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has become a very common cinematic device, especially for horror movies. You want to scare viewers? Play an eerie, tinkery tune, like the ones you hear coming out of a mobile in a baby&rsquo;s crib. Or get a child to do an a cappela version of a nursery rhyme: &laquo; itsy bitsy spider&#8230; &raquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemamontreal.com\/aw\/cvpa.aw\/p.cm\/r.que\/m.Montreal\/j.e\/t.186990\/f.The_Messengers__2007_.html\">Spooky as hell<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder though: is there something fundamentally creepy in these children tunes, or has Hollywood created that fear and trained us to get spooked when we hear them?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&rsquo;s just that young children are scary and we all know it, deep inside. ;-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has become a very common cinematic device, especially for horror movies. You want to scare viewers? Play an eerie, tinkery tune, like the ones you hear coming out of a mobile in a baby&rsquo;s crib. Or get a child to do an a cappela version of a nursery rhyme: &laquo; itsy bitsy spider&#8230; &raquo;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/16\/the-chicken-or-the-egg\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The chicken or the egg?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}