{"id":520903,"date":"2023-01-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=520903"},"modified":"2023-01-16T08:02:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:02:31","slug":"will-the-real-bogeyman-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/will-the-real-bogeyman-please-stand-up","title":{"rendered":"Will the real Bogeyman please stand up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That title will be lost on increasingly more people. It came at the end of the &#8220;To Tell the Truth&#8221; game show, when the real character was asked to reveal himself, while the two imposters remained seated. There are way more than three &#8220;challengers&#8221; when it comes to American &#8220;bogeymen.&#8221; It&#8217;s always been this way, but in the last twenty years, the census of bad guys, villains and monsters has been blowing the top off the charts. On any given hour of talking heads on cable news, it seems as though America were trapped in a haunted house of ghouls. Like that beautiful lady in the black and white Dracula flick, wrapped in a diaphanous gown and clutching a candelabra, stately descending a spiral staircase, stepping down, down into the deepening darkness. All the while in the background, a macabre organ is swelling with a chorus wailing out the audience&#8217;s anxious cries &#8220;Don&#8217;t go! Don&#8217;t go!&#8221; But, deaf to our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That title will be lost on increasingly more people. It came at the end of the &#8220;To Tell the Truth&#8221; game show, when the real character was asked to reveal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}