{"id":558,"date":"2011-06-12T21:58:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T02:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=558"},"modified":"2011-06-12T23:11:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T04:11:09","slug":"d-m-m-r-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"D. M. M. R. James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 75th anniversary of the death of M. R. James, author of <em>Ghost Stories of an Antiquary<\/em> (1904) and three other collections. There is a very readable webtext <a href=\"http:\/\/ebooks.adelaide.edu.au\/j\/james\/mr\/\">here<\/a>. Here is a classical bit from &#8220;Count Magnus&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Like many solitary men, I have a habit of talking to myself aloud; and, unlike some of the Greek and Latin particles, I do not expect an answer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The subject&#8217;s habit of talking to himself aloud turns out to be very bad for his health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 75th anniversary of the death of M. R. James, author of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) and three other collections. There is a very readable webtext here. Here is a classical bit from &#8220;Count Magnus&#8221;: &#8220;Like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=558\">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":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}