{"id":2925,"date":"2020-11-06T07:41:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T15:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2020-10-18T13:52:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T20:52:37","slug":"511-cold-hearted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/511-cold-hearted\/","title":{"rendered":"511 &#8211; Cold-Hearted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cold-hearted.png\" alt=\"A panel from &quot;Take Your Pick!&quot; in Haunt of Fear #14, June 1952\" class=\"wp-image-2926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cold-hearted.png 664w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/cold-hearted-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from &#8220;Take Your Pick!&#8221; in Haunt of Fear #14, June 1952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Haunt of Fear #14 (June 1952) continues EC&#8217;s march into gruesome territory.  The story &#8220;Take Your Pick!&#8221; features a cold-hearted, penny-pinching husband who refuses compassion at every opportunity.  After turning away beggars and destitute friends, sending a dog to sleep outside in the winter, driving on by someone who was hit by a car, he finally refuses to pay for his mother-in-law&#8217;s operation.  This last act results in his wife&#8217;s mother dying, after which the wife is finally driven insane and kills him with an ice-pick.  The panel is carefully framed to not show anything outrageous, but the text description is enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Haunt of Fear #14 (June 1952) continues EC&#8217;s march into gruesome territory. The story &#8220;Take Your Pick!&#8221; features a cold-hearted, penny-pinching husband who refuses compassion at every opportunity. After turning away beggars and destitute friends, sending a dog to sleep outside in the winter, driving on by someone who was hit by a car, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[498,350,512,397,386],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-498","tag-ec","tag-gruesome","tag-horror-comics","tag-juvenile-delinquency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}