{"id":472,"date":"2009-10-11T07:14:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T07:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=472"},"modified":"2009-10-11T07:14:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T07:14:26","slug":"funeral-honours-edgar-allan-poe-by-lawrence-pollard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/funeral-honours-edgar-allan-poe-by-lawrence-pollard\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Funeral&#8217; honours Edgar Allan Poe\/ By Lawrence Pollard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leftbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/2\/20091011-poe.jpg' width='226' height='170' alt='Edgar Allen Poe' \/><\/div>\n<p>\nAfter 160 years, the great American writer Edgar Allan Poe is finally to be honored with a decent funeral service.<!--more-->&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After 160 years, the great American writer Edgar Allan Poe is finally to be honored with a decent funeral service.<\/p>\n<p>As part of events marking the anniversary, and 200 years since his birth, Baltimore, where Poe died and is buried, will host a double celebration.<\/p>\n<p>So many Poe fans are expected to attend that the service will be repeated, after an all-night vigil at his graveside in the eastern US port city.<\/p>\n<p><b>Virtually no-one turned up for his original funeral in 1849.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Edgar Alan Poe &#8211; the inventor of the detective story and creator of horror writing &#8211; is one of the most influential American writers<\/b> ever.<\/p>\n<p>But he died an impoverished lunatic at the age of 40.<\/p>\n<p>His tombstone was destroyed. An enemy wrote his obituary and damaged his reputation for decades.<\/p>\n<p>As if to make up for all these disasters, Poe is being royally treated this year.<\/p>\n<p>Events from an academic conference in Philadelphia to a recreation of his death in Virginia have marked his demise.<\/p>\n<p>Poe attracts devotion. For decades his birthday has been marked by the so-called Poe Toaster, a mysterious visitor who leaves three roses and some cognac on his tombstone.<\/p>\n<p>And now Poe gets not one funeral service, but two &#8211; <b>as befits the master of the macabre<\/b>.<br \/>\n&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Story from BBC NEWS:<br \/>\nPublished: 2009\/10\/11 02:51:59 GMT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 160 years, the great American writer Edgar Allan Poe is finally to be honored with a decent funeral service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}