{"id":28623,"date":"2019-07-31T05:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T02:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=28623"},"modified":"2019-07-31T05:42:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T02:42:50","slug":"new-non-fiction-book-midwestern-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/31\/new-non-fiction-book-midwestern-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"New non-fiction book: Midwestern Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due in a month&#8217;s time, on 1st September 2019, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2k6BsJE\">Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country<\/a><\/em> from the University of Nebraska Press. The book appears to be a sort of travel book in which a bigfoot-hunting academic takes a year&#8217;s sabbatical from the University of Wisconsin.  He spends a year visiting <em>Gravity Falls<\/em>-ish places known for their midwestern monster-mysteries, strange sightings and terrific tall-tales, while recording interviews. Each place gets a chapter, and also some musings on the lures of mystery and the traps of truth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/midwes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/midwes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28624\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/w1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/w1.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"788\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28631\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/w2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/w2.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"798\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28630\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It follows the somewhat similar but rather more dry book <em>American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology<\/em> (2019), which interviewed both U.S. UFO-logists and the &#8216;extraterrestrial intelligence&#8217; probablists (as in &#8220;they&#8217;re probably out there&#8221;), from the perspective of an ethnographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due in a month&#8217;s time, on 1st September 2019, Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/31\/new-non-fiction-book-midwestern-strange\/\">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-28623","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\/28623","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=28623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}