{"id":11921,"date":"2014-07-09T10:43:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T07:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=11921"},"modified":"2014-07-09T10:43:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T07:43:56","slug":"he-prepared-a-special-record-for-the-benefit-of-certain-learned-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/09\/he-prepared-a-special-record-for-the-benefit-of-certain-learned-men\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;He prepared a special record for the benefit of certain learned men&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yog-sothoth.com\/topic\/25390-unusual-findswonkishrantnew-critical-essays-on-hp-lovecraft\/\">entertaining essay-by-essay fisking<\/a> of <em>New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft<\/em> (2013), an expensive book aimed at academic libraries and the shelves of tenured academics. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the time Simmons [the editor] mentions Donald Tyson&#8217;s <em>The Dream World of H.P. Lovecraft<\/em> as &#8220;an interesting biographical reading of Lovecraft&#8217;s writing&#8221; alarm bells were going off in my head.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;half of them [the essay writers] really haven&#8217;t even done the proper research&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An entertaining essay-by-essay fisking of New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft (2013), an expensive book aimed at academic libraries and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/09\/he-prepared-a-special-record-for-the-benefit-of-certain-learned-men\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11921","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=11921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}