{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Stories Are Soul Food","title":"Kids Need Scary Stories","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2867,"description":"Brian asks if it's important to read scary stories to your kids. Nate says yes, because being scared is unavoidable -- the only question is, are your kids going to be afraid of the truly terrifying things God commands them to be afraid of (Himself, Hell)? Or are they going to be scared of silly things (anxiety, death)? The way you do this is by reading them scary stories -- the kind that God tells throughout the Bible. Brian finds an Atlantic review of the Ashtown Burial series that compares Nate's work to R.L. Stein's Goosebumps series -- possessed garbage disposals mangling a kid's fingers, a needle in a tube of lipstick. Nate explains why our culture is titillated by horror in the wrong way -- but desperately needs to be afraid. That's why The Dragon's Tooth, The Drowned Vault, Empire of Bones, and The Silent Bells really are required reading. Make sure your kids see some blood on the pages so they know how face their own challenges.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Il1UxsZUuv7mwFGRS2KIhOkwOp2lzT9fBmyecRRg3tY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zMTk1/ZmVlNjk0ZDliZjlk/ODdmYTc2ZTY5YWNh/Mzg4OS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}