{"id":14715,"date":"2021-05-18T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T12:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/?p=14715"},"modified":"2025-02-24T04:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:47:03","slug":"do-thriller-villains-need-to-be-psychopaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/do-thriller-villains-need-to-be-psychopaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Thriller Villains Need To Be Psychopaths?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Q&amp;A: Do Thriller Villains Need To Be Psychopaths?\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MZGPt-z85oQ?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this clip from the Q&#038;A portion of McKee\u2019s \u201cPlanning the Perfect Thriller\u201d webinar, Robert explains why a conscience can hold your Thriller antagonist back, and how the perfect villains often only care for themselves. <\/p>\n<p>Join Robert online for the <a href=\"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/webinars\/crime-thriller\">Crime Thriller Webinar Series.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert explains why a conscience can hold your Thriller antagonist back, and how the perfect villains often only care for themselves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21822,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715\/revisions\/21822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}