{"id":41630,"date":"2020-08-26T05:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T02:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=41630"},"modified":"2020-08-26T05:01:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T02:01:54","slug":"poes-hoaxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/poes-hoaxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe&#8217;s hoaxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theimaginativeconservative.org\/2020\/05\/six-hoaxes-of-edgar-allan-poe-tavistock-books.html\">&#8220;The Six Hoaxes of Edgar Allan Poe&#8221;<\/a>. The final &#8220;Gold Rush&#8221; one was perhaps the most interesting, and then only for the motive&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My sincere opinion is that nine persons out of ten (even among the best informed) will believe the [hoax newspaper interview, a new way to cheaply &#8216;make&#8217; gold] thus, acting as a sudden, although of course a very temporary, check to the gold fever, it will create a stir to some purpose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So he may actually have changed history there, very subtly. By ensuring that slightly less young men carrying &#8216;the gullibility gene&#8217; were headed west from Boston, during those vital few weeks of spring 1849. The paper, <em>The Flag of Our Union<\/em>, was a popular cheap Saturday &#8216;family miscellany&#8217; newspaper, then two years&#8217; strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Six Hoaxes of Edgar Allan Poe&#8221;. The final &#8220;Gold Rush&#8221; one was perhaps the most interesting, and then only &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/08\/26\/poes-hoaxes\/\">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-41630","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\/41630","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=41630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}