{"id":977,"date":"2011-12-08T20:31:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T00:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=977"},"modified":"2011-12-08T20:32:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T00:32:55","slug":"apocalypse-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/apocalypse-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse Then?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like modern readers aren&#8217;t the only ones- the fine folks of the medieval era also enjoyed a good scary story, according to the British Library. And not just the aristocracy either. &#8220;Apocalypses&#8221; were written for a wider audience that those few people who could read Latin, which is pretty cool! And here is a <a href=\"&lt;a href=\">gorgeous page<\/a> from one of these richly illustrated books.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m off to read Mike Mullin&#8217;s <em>Ashfall.<\/em> Also an excellent book about the apocalypse, although not the same one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like modern readers aren&#8217;t the only ones- the fine folks of the medieval era also enjoyed a good scary story, according to the British Library. And not just the aristocracy either. &#8220;Apocalypses&#8221; were written for a wider audience that those few people who could read Latin, which is pretty cool! And here<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/apocalypse-then\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[174,691,689,688,690,131],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apocalypse","tag-ashfall","tag-book-of-revelations","tag-medieval-era","tag-mike-mullin","tag-scary-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}