{"id":9471,"date":"2013-10-07T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=9471"},"modified":"2013-10-07T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T14:19:19","slug":"mind-and-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/10\/07\/mind-and-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind and madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does Lovecraftian madness read <a href=\"http:\/\/thaoworra.blogspot.sg\/2012\/09\/lovecraftian-laos-nyarlathotep-and-nak.html\">in cultures that have differing conceptions of mind<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Lao, like many communities in Southeast Asia, have only recently become familiar with Western notions of psychology and sanity. This leads to an interesting discussion of how Lovecraft&#8217;s recurring themes of the cosmic threats to sanity and an ordered, consistent sense of the cosmos may be an utterly alien topic of terror. One can almost imagine a Lao reader going &#8220;Ha ha ha. Oh. You lost the American version of your mind? That&#8217;s it?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does Lovecraftian madness read in cultures that have differing conceptions of mind? The Lao, like many communities in Southeast &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/10\/07\/mind-and-madness\/\">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-9471","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\/9471","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=9471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}