{"id":5363,"date":"2012-08-08T04:27:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2012-08-08T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T01:27:10","slug":"close-to-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/08\/close-to-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Close to shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside the influenza pandemic of late 1918, the threat of German submarines, and the various terrorist attacks, there was another real horror on the East Coast of America in Lovecraft&#8217;s young manhood.  This one in summer 1916.  Detailed in Michael Capuzzo, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Close-Shore-Story-Terror-Innocence\/dp\/0767904133\">Close to shore: a true story of terror in an age of innocence<\/a><\/em>, Random House 2001.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, <em>Close to Shore<\/em> brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The attacks were the first documented cases of shark attack in American coastal waters.  Amazingly, the shark also staged a triple attack at&#8230; &#8220;a farming community eleven miles from the sea&#8221;, Matawan Creek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside the influenza pandemic of late 1918, the threat of German submarines, and the various terrorist attacks, there was another &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/08\/08\/close-to-shore\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363","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=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}