{"id":159,"date":"2019-07-09T03:08:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T03:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2019-07-09T03:08:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T03:08:27","slug":"person-of-interest-lafcadio-hearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/weirdness\/person-of-interest-lafcadio-hearn\/","title":{"rendered":"Person of interest: Lafcadio Hearn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two articles by authors who I really admire and respect on a topic that sounds very fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lafcadio Hearn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-paris-review\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"SJcEU67LCm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/02\/the-many-lives-of-lafcadio-hearn\/\">The Many Lives of Lafcadio Hearn<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/02\/the-many-lives-of-lafcadio-hearn\/embed\/#?secret=SJcEU67LCm\" data-secret=\"SJcEU67LCm\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Many Lives of Lafcadio Hearn&#8221; &#8212; The Paris Review\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>The first is by  Andrei Codrescu <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> <br>Hearn\u2019s ultra-realist expos\u00e9s were drenched in the wounded sensibility of a writer with a merciless eye who had Greek myths and Celtic fairy tales in his blood. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The second is by <a href=\"http:\/\/lib.ru\/STERLINGB\/catscan06.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Bruce Sterling (opens in a new tab)\">Bruce Sterling<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> <br>&#8211;Hearn was your basic congenital SF saint-perv, but in a nineteenth century environment. Hearn was, in brief, a rootless oddball with severe personality problems and a pronounced gloating taste for the horrific and bizarre. <\/p><cite> <br>From SCIENCE FICTION EYE #6 CATSCAN 6  &#8220;Shinkansen&#8221; <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two articles by authors who I really admire and respect on a topic that sounds very fascinating. Lafcadio Hearn. Hearn\u2019s ultra-realist expos\u00e9s were drenched in the wounded sensibility of a writer with a merciless eye who had Greek myths and Celtic fairy tales in his blood. The second is by Bruce Sterling. &#8211;Hearn was your &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/weirdness\/person-of-interest-lafcadio-hearn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Person of interest: Lafcadio Hearn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,29],"tags":[73,75,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbrezinski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}