{"id":23864,"date":"2019-03-24T05:58:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T02:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=23864"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:16:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:16:52","slug":"new-book-weird-talers-essays-on-robert-e-howard-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/03\/24\/new-book-weird-talers-essays-on-robert-e-howard-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book from Bobby Derie, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hippocampuspress.com\/robert-e.-howard\/essays-on-robert-e.-howard-and-others-by-bobby-derie\">Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others<\/a><\/em>, on pre-order now.  Hippocampus has the full contents list.   Lots of fascinating new essays, many from Bobby&#8217;s excellent blog, on R.E. Howard and also the wider Lovecraft Circle.  Also deeper historical context such as an essay on &#8220;Fan Mail: Prohibition in &#8216;The Souk'&#8221;.  Prohibition was the worthy but impractical and thus ill-fated U.S. ban on liquor (a ban Lovecraft approved of), and &#8216;The Souk&#8217; was the letters page of the <em>Weird Tales<\/em> &#8216;clone&#8217; magazine <em>Oriental Stories<\/em>, also edited by Farnsworth Wright. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book from Bobby Derie, Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others, on pre-order now. Hippocampus has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/03\/24\/new-book-weird-talers-essays-on-robert-e-howard-and-others\/\">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":[18,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-reh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23864","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=23864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53837,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23864\/revisions\/53837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}