{"id":989,"date":"2009-01-22T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=989"},"modified":"2009-01-22T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T10:35:08","slug":"the-horror-the-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"The Horror, The Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were penned up and set out for purchase by huge beasts who wanted to chop them to pieces and devour their corpses. Before they could be eaten they staged a daring breakout and fled into the night. Finding a safe place to stop running, they established their own hidden sanctuary where they created a new society of their own, where they would hopefully be safe from being eaten. They named their community in memory of that threat, so they would never become complacent. They were&#8230; <em>the Munch Bunch<\/em>.<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=2240986098179178177>The whole terrifying tale retold as a jaunty song<\/a>.<br \/>\nThese characters were important to me when I was little, particularly the Banana Bunch. The all-knowing <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Munch_Bunch>Wikipedia has an entry<\/a> that mentions the special New Zealand series of characters. I remember these fondly, and I remember being pleased that there were NZ characters in the books (even if they never turned up on the television show).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were penned up and set out for purchase by huge beasts who wanted to chop them to pieces and devour their corpses. Before they could be eaten they staged a daring breakout and fled into the night. Finding a safe place to stop running, they established their own hidden sanctuary where they created a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=989\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Horror, The Horror<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-also"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-fX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}