{"id":23135,"date":"2016-09-07T19:16:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Were-coming-up-to-the-200th-anniversary-of-the-book-which-defined-the-modern-literary-vampire-charismatic"},"modified":"2016-09-07T19:16:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:16:13","slug":"were-coming-up-to-the-200th-anniversary-of-the-book-which-defined-the-modern-literary-vampire-charismatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/09\/07\/were-coming-up-to-the-200th-anniversary-of-the-book-which-defined-the-modern-literary-vampire-charismatic\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re coming up to the 200th anniversary of the book which defined the modern literary vampire &#8211; charismatic,&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/files\/7371a23c-738c-4c26-a652-3d74a6ed9bbe.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re coming up to the 200th anniversary of the book which defined the modern literary vampire &#8211; charismatic, aristocratic, consuming and destroying everyone who comes near. There&#8217;s a terrible ironic twist near the end of the tale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by The Public Domain Review<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy birthday to John Polidori \u2014 Lord Byron&#8217;s long-suffering physician and creator of the modern vampire with his novella The Vampyre (which sees it 200th anniversary this year!). Andrew McConnell Stott explores how a fractious relationship between Polidori and his poet employer lies behind the tale, with Byron himself providing a model for the blood-sucking aristocratic figure of the legend we are familiar with today: <a href=\"http:\/\/buff.ly\/2c6M2av\">http:\/\/buff.ly\/2c6M2av<\/a><\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        We&#8217;re coming up to the 200th anniversary of the book which defined the modern literary vampire &#8211; charismatic,&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/09\/07\/were-coming-up-to-the-200th-anniversary-of-the-book-which-defined-the-modern-literary-vampire-charismatic\/\">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\/23135"}],"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=23135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}