{"id":77789,"date":"2019-10-06T11:55:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T10:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=77789"},"modified":"2019-10-06T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T10:55:29","slug":"parents-are-hiring-a-terrifying-clown-to-scare-their-naughty-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/?p=77789","title":{"rendered":"Parents are hiring a terrifying clown to scare their naughty children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- m -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5751019935\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"id_text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Parents will do just about anything to get their children to behave. Sometimes, however, these measures err more onto the side of pure torture. In a new documentary, <i>Wrinkles the Clown, <\/i>a 65-year-old man opens up to his world of being, well, a clown.<\/p>\n<p>During the documentary, Wrinkles talks about how people pay him, &#8220;a few hundred dollars&#8221;, to attend birthdays, scare misbehaving kids, and prank people.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/11\/03\/this-creepy-65-year-old-clown-will-terrify-your-misbehaving-kid-for-cash\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a><\/i>, he explains how he was hired to terrify a mother\u2019s 12-year-old son, saying, \u201che was scared of clowns and I showed up across the street from him at the bus stop and he just started crying in front of his friends and ran home. His mother called back a few days later and said \u2018Thank you!\u2019 Now when he acts bad, she just has to ask him: \u2018Do you want Wrinkles to come back?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"c5b541d88d911dcbb84397def1a3492d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3943282228430444\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5511153269\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>He sees his work as a service for kids nowadays, \u201cI\u2019m just a good old-fashioned clown,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I was a kid, it was okay to scare kids and now they\u2019re all whiny and scared.\u201d Throughout, Wrinkles remains in-character, refusing to reveal his true identity.<\/p>\n<p>But, Wrinkles has been something of a legend for years now. 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Sometimes, however, these measures err more onto the side of pure torture. In a new documentary, Wrinkles the Clown, a 65-year-old man opens up to his world of being, well, a clown. During the documentary, Wrinkles talks about how people pay him, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77791,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77789\/revisions\/77791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsforher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}