{"id":3232,"date":"2011-09-02T19:52:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T01:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2011-09-02T19:52:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T01:52:57","slug":"five-childhood-archetypes-you-dont-see-in-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3232","title":{"rendered":"Five Childhood Archetypes You Don’t See in the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cracked<\/em>, now Cracked.com, is better now than when I was in the snarky 13-year-old demographic.<\/p>\n

Consider this article<\/a>. Sample:<\/p>\n

This wasn’t a normal, here’s-my-little-kid-arsenal-that-I-keep-under-the-bed-in-case-of-ninja-attack; the Psychopath had real, honest to God weapons, and nobody knows where or how he got them. He owned swords, small caliber pistols and knives — oh, so many knives. He would happily explain why he needed each one — here’s a skinning knife, this one’s a deboner (tee hee), this here is a Bowie, better for slashing, and that’s a stiletto, mostly for stabbing — but there was only ever one real reason: His dad died in the army and his mom couldn’t afford therapy. Or maybe she just drank, or maybe it was his older brother that died; totaled his Trans-Am in a drag-racing accident. There were logical reasons for his behavior, but somehow, looking in Mickey’s eyes, you just kind of knew that he was born a little off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cracked, now Cracked.com, is better now than when I was in the snarky 13-year-old demographic. Consider this article. Sample: This wasn’t a normal, here’s-my-little-kid-arsenal-that-I-keep-under-the-bed-in-case-of-ninja-attack; the Psychopath had real, honest to God weapons, and nobody knows where or how he got them. He owned swords, small caliber pistols and knives — oh, so many knives. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childhood"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Q8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10588,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10588","url_meta":{"origin":3232,"position":0},"title":"Religion News Service: Baltic Pagans Spurred by Conservation","author":"Chas S. 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