{"id":10098,"date":"2017-10-31T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T14:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10098"},"modified":"2017-10-31T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T14:59:57","slug":"the-english-eerie-is-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10098","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The English eerie is on the rise&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/apr\/10\/eeriness-english-countryside-robert-macfarlane\">A loose but substantial body of work<\/a> is emerging that explores the English landscape in terms of its anomalies rather than its continuities, that is sceptical of comfortable notions of \u201cdwelling\u201d and \u201cbelonging\u201d, and of the packagings of the past as \u201cheritage\u201d, and that locates itself within a spectred rather than a sceptred isle. . . .\u00a0We are, certainly, very far from \u201cnature writing\u201d, whatever that once was, and into a mutated cultural terrain that includes the weird and the punk as well as the attentive and the devotional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Robert Macfarlane writes about the eerie lands of England in many art forms, beginning with a good summary of a strange story. (via Alan Jacobs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loose but substantial body of work is emerging that explores the English landscape in terms of its anomalies rather than its continuities, that is sceptical of comfortable notions of \u201cdwelling\u201d and \u201cbelonging\u201d, and of the packagings of the past as \u201cheritage\u201d, and that locates itself within a spectred rather than a sceptred isle. . &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10098\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;The English eerie is on the rise&#8217;<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[882,1151],"class_list":["post-10098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-england","tag-halloween"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}