{"id":10864,"date":"2014-06-13T18:24:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T15:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=10864"},"modified":"2014-06-13T18:24:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T15:24:25","slug":"a-sort-of-mad-eyed-monstrosity-behind-the-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/06\/13\/a-sort-of-mad-eyed-monstrosity-behind-the-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A sort of mad-eyed monstrosity behind the leader&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Organization of American Historians is holding their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oah.org\/meetings-events\/meetings-events\/call-for-proposals\/\">2016 conference in Providence<\/a>.  The conference theme is &#8220;Leadership in America&#8221;, so on that basis I guess there <em>might<\/em> be room to shoehorn Lovecraft in there?  Which would be fitting, as the conference will be in Providence.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a paper titled something like&#8230; &#8216;Corresponding Leaderships: H. P. Lovecraft as leader of the amateur journalism movement&#8217;.  Looking not at the tedious <em>minutiae<\/em> of the posts he occupied and the twist and turns of his leaderships-by-correspondence, but at Lovecraft as an example of the sort of people who gained skills from leading an autonomous literary open movement that was &mdash; perhaps for the first time in world history &mdash; outside of religion or party\/single-issue politics, free of pre-publication censorship, and which consciously tried to overcome boundaries (gender, income, education, and geography) between members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Organization of American Historians is holding their 2016 conference in Providence. The conference theme is &#8220;Leadership in America&#8221;, so &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/06\/13\/a-sort-of-mad-eyed-monstrosity-behind-the-leader\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}