{"id":36110,"date":"2020-03-12T04:24:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T01:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=36110"},"modified":"2022-04-24T17:16:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T17:16:48","slug":"plague-in-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/03\/12\/plague-in-providence\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday the 13th: plague in Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday the 13th approaches.  Here in the UK, the 13th is a key virus infection-point.  According to the UK&#8217;s Chief Medical officer the start of the peak in symptoms should then begin here on 19th-23rd March, rising thereafter and possibly continuing high for three or four weeks. (<em>Update: he&#8217;s now saying &#8220;the peak&#8221; might last 10-14 weeks<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Thus, tomorrow we face a very scary Friday the 13th. There&#8217;s also a full moon in the night sky, possibly giving hysterical toilet-roll chewers an added dose of lunacy.  <\/p>\n<p>What better reading then, for this moment, than my account of H.P. Lovecraft and the deadly influenza epidemic?  Accordingly here is a free chapter from my book <em>Lovecraft in Historical Context<\/em> #3, &#8220;A Real Horror: on the 1918 flu epidemic in Providence&#8221;. The chapter has been slightly revised, and there&#8217;s a new picture of one of the armed guards on the gates of Brown University. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/pdfs\/real_horror_1918_flu_in_providence.pdf\">real_horror_1918_flu_in_providence.pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday the 13th approaches. Here in the UK, the 13th is a key virus infection-point. According to the UK&#8217;s Chief &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/03\/12\/plague-in-providence\/\">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":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36110","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=36110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53696,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36110\/revisions\/53696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}