{"id":121,"date":"2004-09-18T09:10:26","date_gmt":"2004-09-18T13:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=121"},"modified":"2004-09-18T09:10:26","modified_gmt":"2004-09-18T13:10:26","slug":"another-sad-tale-in-the-sage-of-child-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Another sad tale in the sage of child actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2004\/LAW\/09\/17\/culkin.arrest\/story.macaulay.culkin.ap.jpg\" alt=\"Macaulay\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s Macaulay Culkin&#8217;s mugshot.  Scary, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/LAW\/09\/17\/culkin.arrest\/index.html\">(CNN) &#8212; Actor Macaulay Culkin<\/a>, who gained fame as a child in the smash hit film &#8220;Home Alone,&#8221; was charged Friday in Oklahoma City with marijuana possession and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, police said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least the charges aren&#8217;t too terrible, but they do smack of the start of Culkin going down a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotten.com\/library\/bio\/entertainers\/child-stars\/gary-coleman\/\">long<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotten.com\/library\/bio\/entertainers\/child-stars\/dana-plato\/\">treacherous<\/a> path that other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvtome.com\/tvtome\/servlet\/PersonDetail\/personid-4881\">child stars<\/a> have gone through.  Only, Macauley is getting dangerously close to his looks fading really fast, from the so-cute-it&#8217;s-sickening &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0099785\/\">Home Alone<\/a>&#8221; kid to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/gallery\/granitz\/1385\/Events\/1385\/SteveBusce_Grani_382662_400.jpg?path=pgallery&#038;path_key=Buscemi,%20Steve\">certain other actor<\/a> at the far opposite end of the looks spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macaulay Culkin arrested for pot possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}