{"id":2678,"date":"2016-09-09T22:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T22:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2016-09-11T21:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T21:39:36","slug":"remember-dungeons-dragons-and-satanic-ritual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2678","title":{"rendered":"Remember Dungeons & Dragons \u2013 and \u2018satanic ritual abuse\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"160909dungeon\"Sept. 9, 2016<\/p>\n

\u201cStrange what we worry about when it comes to our children. A great deal of the culture-war politics of the 1980s consisted of theatrical wailing about threats to our children that were either entirely made up or wildly exaggerated: The boys in \u2018Stranger Things<\/a>\u2019\u00a0love to play Dungeons & Dragons, and, in a rare oversight, the series does not even touch on the minor cultural panic surrounding that game in places such as small-town Indiana, where D&D’s supernatural elements sparked terrified tales of occult experimentation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s not for nothing that this came around the same time as the Salem-style mass hysteria over \u2018Satanic ritual abuse\u2019 at the nation’s child-care centers, with fanciful worries about Luciferian cults obscuring the more straightforward anxiety associated with abandoning one’s children to child-care facilities. Yesterday’s Satanic cultists and Alar<\/a> [a controversial apple growth inhibitor]\u00a0are today’s online predators and brain-scrambling vaccinations….\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 From \u201cFamiliar Things: The TV series \u2018Stranger Things\u2019 portrays family breakdown yesterday and today\u201d by Kevin D. Williamson in National Review (Aug. 29)<\/em><\/p>\n

…and clowns<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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Sept. 9, 2016 \u201cStrange what we worry about when it comes to our children. A great deal of the culture-war politics of the 1980s consisted of theatrical wailing about threats to our children that were either entirely made up or wildly exaggerated: The boys in \u2018Stranger Things\u2019\u00a0love to play Dungeons & Dragons, and, in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}