{"id":44581,"date":"2014-06-13T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/guardian_slender_man_the_shadowy_online_figure_blamed_for_a_gruesome_crime_\/"},"modified":"2014-06-13T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:00:56","slug":"guardian_slender_man_the_shadowy_online_figure_blamed_for_a_gruesome_crime_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44581","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Slender Man: the shadowy online figure blamed for a gruesome crime in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Slender Man is unnaturally tall. A dark-suited nemesis, a sinister stealer of children, he is sometimes described as having black tendrils that extend from his back, but always as having a white, eerie blankness instead of a face. He is said to have the ability to control mind and memory.<\/p>\n<p>And he is not real.<\/p>\n<p>But according to police, on Saturday two 12-year-old girls lured another girl to a forest in Wakuesha, Wisconsin and stabbed her 19 times. One of the girls allegedly told police they stabbed their friend to \u201cprove [themselves] worthy to the Slender&#8230;.\u201cSlender Man was different,\u201d\u009d said [Drew] Slater. \u201cAs you focused on him, you began to realize how &#8230; wrong he looked. <b>He managed to actually look like a predator and a man, all at the same time. It was spooky<\/b>.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jun\/04\/slender-man-online-character-wisconsin-stabbings\">Read it all<\/a> (emphasis mine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slender Man is unnaturally tall. A dark-suited nemesis, a sinister stealer of children, he is sometimes described as having black tendrils that extend from his back, but always as having a white, eerie blankness instead of a face. He<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44581\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}