{"id":144824,"date":"2015-07-20T03:25:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T03:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/20\/when-i-was-eleven-or-twelve-my-parents-went-to-a\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T00:39:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T00:39:41","slug":"when-i-was-eleven-or-twelve-my-parents-went-to-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/20\/when-i-was-eleven-or-twelve-my-parents-went-to-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-144824 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/20\/when-i-was-eleven-or-twelve-my-parents-went-to-a\/attachment\/144825\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tumblr_lq544lhszB1qggvd6o9_r1_250-150x141.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/20\/when-i-was-eleven-or-twelve-my-parents-went-to-a\/attachment\/144826\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tumblr_lq544lhszB1qggvd6o17_r1_250-150x141.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/20\/when-i-was-eleven-or-twelve-my-parents-went-to-a\/attachment\/144827\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tumblr_lq544lhszB1qggvd6o10_r1_250-150x141.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/20\/when-i-was-eleven-or-twelve-my-parents-went-to-a\/attachment\/144828\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tumblr_lq544lhszB1qggvd6o18_r1_250-150x141.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><small><i>\u201cWhen I was eleven or twelve, my parents went to a parents-teachers evening, and they were so appalled by the fact that all the compositions I wrote were horror stories, every single week \u2013 in fact I remember there was one called A Day At The Beach which involved a decapitation \u2013 that when they came home I was banned from watching horror films. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It was their own version of the Hays Code. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I was banned from getting this magazine, House of Hammer, with which I was completely obsessed. And it was particularly bad because, that Friday night was a screening of a very, very rare Hammer movie, Revenge of Frankenstein, which was never on. And I was beside myself. I went to bed crying, laid there in the darkness \u2018til I heard my parents go to bed, and then I realized my sister and her boyfriend were staying up late to watch it. So I just went downstairs and watched it anyway. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And that was the end of my horror exile.\u201d<\/i> <b>\u2014 Mark Gatiss<\/b><\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I was eleven or twelve, my parents went to a parents-teachers evening, and they were so appalled by the fact that all the compositions I wrote were horror stories, every single week \u2013 in fact I remember there was one called A Day At The Beach which involved a decapitation \u2013 that when they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/20\/when-i-was-eleven-or-twelve-my-parents-went-to-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16598,252,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144829,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144824\/revisions\/144829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}