{"id":928,"date":"2003-11-16T14:06:25","date_gmt":"2003-11-16T19:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=928"},"modified":"2003-11-16T14:06:25","modified_gmt":"2003-11-16T19:06:25","slug":"do-movie-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/11\/do-movie-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Movie Ratings do more harm than good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A27782-2003Nov11.html\"><b>Do You Know Where Your Children Are? <\/b><br \/>\nMost likely, they&#8217;re watching PG-13 movies. Those would be the ones with the foul language, oral-sex references and torture scenes&#8230;. <\/a> (WaPo; marketing questions)<br \/>\nAn interesting and disturbing article about &#8220;ratings creep&#8221;, exacerbated by the introduction of the PG-13 movie rating (and ultimately made possible by parental inattention and laxity.)  Thank you, Hollywood, for serving up incredible filth to teens and younger, all in the name of greed.<br \/>\nCase in point:  the new Cat in the Hat movie (which looks awful to me.)  This movie is based on a book beloved of preschoolers and beginning readers &#8212; and is rated PG.  Couldn&#8217;t Hollywood show a little restraint (and a little consideration for the parents of young children who might want to see the movie?)<br \/>\nUgh.  I can&#8217;t write more about Hollywood and the laughable ratings system without resorting to invective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Most likely, they&#8217;re watching PG-13 movies. Those would be the ones with the foul language, oral-sex references and torture scenes&#8230;. (WaPo; marketing questions) An interesting and disturbing article about &#8220;ratings creep&#8221;, exacerbated by the introduction of the PG-13 movie rating (and ultimately made possible by parental inattention and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/11\/do-movie-rating\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do Movie Ratings do more harm than good?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}