{"id":2376,"date":"2009-01-27T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2009-01-27T12:38:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:38:38","slug":"poe-boston-baltimore-or-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2376","title":{"rendered":"Poe: Boston, Baltimore, or Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 19, the day before our government stepped up the pace on taking away the earnings of the disfavored, Edgar Allan Poe was born&#8211;200 years early.  Today, three cities are fighting over his legacy.  &#8220;For a poet and short-story writer devoted to elegy and horror, a man whose great subject was death, such <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obit-mag.com\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/5252\">posthumous popularity<\/a> is rich in irony,&#8221; writes Julia Klein for <i>Obit Magazine<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Let us quote Poe&#8217;s own words to apply to this situation: &#8220;&#8230; it may well be supposed that no ordinary appearance could have excited such sensation. In truth the masquerade license of the night was nearly unlimited; but the figure in question had out-Heroded Herod, and gone beyond the bounds of even the prince&#8217;s indefinite decorum.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 19, the day before our government stepped up the pace on taking away the earnings of the disfavored, Edgar Allan Poe was born&#8211;200 years early. Today, three cities are fighting over his legacy. &#8220;For a poet and short-story writer devoted to elegy and horror, a man whose great subject was death, such posthumous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2376\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poe: Boston, Baltimore, or Philadelphia<\/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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","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=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}