{"id":22801,"date":"2016-12-30T19:47:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T19:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/This-is-an-excellent-example-of-a-mundane-murder-by-a-conspiracy-of-terrified-incompetents-which-became-magnified"},"modified":"2016-12-30T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T19:47:25","slug":"this-is-an-excellent-example-of-a-mundane-murder-by-a-conspiracy-of-terrified-incompetents-which-became-magnified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/12\/30\/this-is-an-excellent-example-of-a-mundane-murder-by-a-conspiracy-of-terrified-incompetents-which-became-magnified\/","title":{"rendered":"This is an excellent example of a mundane murder by a conspiracy of terrified incompetents which became magnified&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>This is an excellent example of a mundane murder by a conspiracy of terrified incompetents which became magnified into a legend by various interested parties &#8211; a legend which persists in the popular consciousness today, despite the facts having been known for many decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things you can do if you have a generational jump in your series is to turn the earlier events, and characters, into legend. Sherri S. Tepper does it in <em>Raising the Stones<\/em>, and Brandon Sanderson does it between the first and second Mistborn trilogies. But it doesn&#8217;t need to take generations; the legend of Rasputin was well established within ten years of his death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Murder of Rasputin: The 100th Anniversary of a Mystery That Won&#8217;t Die  <a href=\"https:\/\/shar.es\/1DJUYH\">https:\/\/shar.es\/1DJUYH<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shar.es\/1DJUYH\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">https:\/\/shar.es\/1DJUYH<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        This is an excellent example of a mundane murder by a conspiracy of terrified incompetents which became magnified&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/12\/30\/this-is-an-excellent-example-of-a-mundane-murder-by-a-conspiracy-of-terrified-incompetents-which-became-magnified\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}