{"id":5975,"date":"2012-09-25T17:13:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2012-09-25T17:13:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:13:39","slug":"new-england-vampire-panics-of-the-1800s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/09\/25\/new-england-vampire-panics-of-the-1800s\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Vampire Panics of the 1800s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Smithsonian<\/em> magazine has a long article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/The-Great-New-England-Vampire-Panic-169791986.html\">&#8220;The Great New England Vampire Panic&#8221;<\/a>.  The story is based on the work of a consulting folklorist at the Rhode Island Historical Preservation &amp; Heritage Commission, who has documented&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;80 exhumations [&#8230;] concentrated in backwoods New England, in the 1800s&#8221; [&#8230;] &#8220;The public hysteria almost invariably occurred in the midst of savage tuberculosis outbreaks&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian magazine has a long article on &#8220;The Great New England Vampire Panic&#8221;. The story is based on the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/09\/25\/new-england-vampire-panics-of-the-1800s\/\">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":[8,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","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=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}