{"id":444,"date":"2010-01-30T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2010\/01\/30\/the-singing-ringing-tree\/"},"modified":"2010-01-30T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T18:52:00","slug":"the-singing-ringing-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2010\/01\/30\/the-singing-ringing-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Singing Ringing Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Singing Ringing Tree, made in an East German studio in 1957, has had a weird effect on my psyche for the rest of my life. I still feel it&#8217;s important all children have the crap scared out of them regularly in a surreal and incomprehensible way, and the East (PS er. more Eastern?) Europeans do it best. Also they had no silly moral qualms about stapling doves to a swing.<\/p>\n<p>The Fast Show spoofed it (this might not mean much if you don&#8217;t remember the original, though the above clip will help). Go here.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7XqMF5ou7hE\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7XqMF5ou7hE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Singing Ringing Tree, made in an East German studio in 1957, has had a weird effect on my psyche for the rest of my life. I still feel it&#8217;s important all children have the crap scared out of them regularly in a surreal and incomprehensible way, and the East (PS er. more Eastern?) Europeans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}