{"id":2922,"date":"2011-08-21T22:26:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T19:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2011-08-21T22:26:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T19:26:47","slug":"rhode-island-school-of-design-assigns-lovecraft-to-all-freshmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/08\/21\/rhode-island-school-of-design-assigns-lovecraft-to-all-freshmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island School of Design assigns Lovecraft to all freshmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rhode Island School of Design <a href=\"http:\/\/theteemingbrain.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/21\/rhode-island-school-of-design-now-requiring-incoming-freshmen-to-read-h-p-lovecraft\/\">assigns Lovecraft<\/a> as the first book in its first Common Reading Program.  No, not as a dire warning about what might be lurking in the waters off Providence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;And we thought it had many different entry points, many themes,\u201d said Cavicchi, who suggested the book \u2014 which he had read in high school long before setting foot in Providence \u2014 to the rest of the committee that picked it. Themes like the role of place in the creative inspiration; the point of knowing one\u2019s personal history; the ethics of manipulating nature; the limits of science and rationality &#8230; To me, the book is very layered. There is the horror story, but then there are all these other elements in and around the horror story.\u201d  On Sept. 12, right after RISD\u2019s opening convocation, the freshmen will gather in groups for the first of many discussions on the book.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhode Island School of Design assigns Lovecraft as the first book in its first Common Reading Program. No, not as &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/08\/21\/rhode-island-school-of-design-assigns-lovecraft-to-all-freshmen\/\">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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unnamable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922","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=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}