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Touching tweets on the loss of Maurice Sendak a couple days ago:<\/p>\n
“We’ll be roaring our terrible roars today.”
\n-Timothy McSweeney<\/p>\n“‘Please don’t go…. We love you so.’ RIP Maurice Sendak”
\n-St. Martin’s Press<\/p>\n“Maurice Sendak.. Your mom has dinner waiting .. RIP.”
\n-leearenberg<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAlso got this great quote from the Wild Thing himself \u00a0in my perusing of articles on the late author. From a Newsweek Article (Oct 2009)<\/a>:<\/p>\n
What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?<\/b>
\nMaurice\u00a0Sendak (author):<\/b> I would tell them to go to hell. That’s a question I will not tolerate.
\n<\/i>Because kids can handle it?
\n<\/b>Maurice Sendak:<\/b> If they can’t handle it, go home. Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like. But it’s not a question that can be answered.
\n<\/i>Spike Jonze (director):<\/b> Dave, you want to field that one?
\n<\/i>Dave Eggers (producer): <\/b>The part about kids wetting their pants? Should kids wear diapers when they go to the movies? I think adults should wear diapers going to it, too. I think everyone should be prepared for any eventuality.
\n<\/i>Maurice Sendak: <\/b>I think you’re right. This concentration on kids being scared, as though we as adults can’t be scared. Of course we’re scared. I’m scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can’t fall asleep. It never stops. We’re grown-ups; we know better, but we’re afraid.
\n<\/i>Why is that important in art?
\n<\/b>Maurice Sendak: <\/b>Because it’s truth. You don’t want to do something that’s all terrifying. I saw the most horrendous movies that were unfit for child’s eyes. So what? I managed to survive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Touching tweets on the loss of Maurice Sendak a couple days ago: “We’ll be roaring our terrible roars today.” -Timothy McSweeney “‘Please don’t go…. We love you so.’ RIP Maurice Sendak” -St. Martin’s Press “Maurice Sendak.. Your mom has dinner waiting .. RIP.” -leearenberg Also got this great quote from the Wild Thing himself \u00a0in … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,12,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-121","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-books","9":"category-fatherhood","10":"category-film","11":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}