{"id":24628,"date":"2019-04-11T05:33:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T02:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=24628"},"modified":"2019-04-11T05:33:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T02:33:38","slug":"john-michells-enchanted-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/04\/11\/john-michells-enchanted-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"John Michell\u2019s Enchanted Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A talk on <a href=\"https:\/\/forteanlondon.blogspot.com\/\">&#8220;John Michell\u2019s Enchanted Landscape&#8221;<\/a>, 29th May 2019 in London. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see there&#8217;s still interest in him. Many in the British Isles will remember him as one of the key writers of the 1970s and early 1980s on the alleged &#8216;prehistoric geometry&#8217; of the English landscape, on general astro-archaeology, and as an assiduous ley-line hunter. An authentic &#8216;fringe traditionalist&#8217;, of the sort that England increasingly had no patience with from about 1985 onwards, as the authentic place-rooted &#8216;eccentric&#8217; type who had previously thrived was slowly but firmly purged from modern life.<\/p>\n<p>He was the inheritor of an earlier 1920 tradition around ley-lines and Alfred Watkins, which I suspect the Anglophile Lovecraft partly knew about and drew on for some small elements of stories such as &#8220;The Lurking Fear&#8221;.  See my annotated &#8220;Lurking Fear&#8221; for details, page 38 and footnote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A talk on &#8220;John Michell\u2019s Enchanted Landscape&#8221;, 29th May 2019 in London. It&#8217;s good to see there&#8217;s still interest in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/04\/11\/john-michells-enchanted-landscape\/\">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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628","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=24628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}