{"id":74,"date":"2020-03-21T17:45:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T17:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historytalks.info\/?p=74"},"modified":"2022-06-30T23:30:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T23:30:30","slug":"curran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/talks\/curran\/","title":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Mystery &#8211; Hoax or Literary Phenomena"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31\" src=\"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mystery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"473\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Learn about the fascinating, bizarre story of the St. Louis housewife, Pearl Curran, who became a celebrated poet and novelist in the early 20th century.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although poorly educated, she began channeling the words of brilliant, talented Patience Worth via an Ouija board. The unanswered question is who really produced this remarkable literature?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll also learn about Spiritualism, s\u00e9ances and the religious fervor prevalent at the time.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about the fascinating, bizarre story of the St. Louis<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/talks\/curran\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The St. Louis Mystery &#8211; Hoax or Literary Phenomena<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}