{"id":6347,"date":"2009-01-20T13:41:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T19:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2009-01-20T13:41:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T19:41:55","slug":"on-poes-200th-anniversary-the-toaster-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/on-poes-200th-anniversary-the-toaster-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"On Poe&#8217;s 200th Anniversary: The Toaster Returned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?s=poe+toaster\">Poe Toaster <\/a> returned yesterday. I <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=poe+toaster\" class=\"external external_icon\">missed it<\/a>. A-gain. <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/2009\/01\/raising-glass-to-mr-poe.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Neil Gaiman<\/a> did not forget.  That&#8217;s just the kind of man he is.<\/p>\n<p>One day I&#8217;m driving my butt up there to stand in the cold of night to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=poe%20toaster&#038;w=all\" class=\"external external_icon\">watch some old man put cognac and flowers<\/a> on Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s grave.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The curator of the Poe House and Museum, Jeff Jerome, said about 50 people waited outside the cemetery of Westminster Presbyterian Church, hoping to catch a glimpse Monday of the elusive man known as the &#8220;Poe toaster.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/entertainment\/bal-poetoaster0119,0,2772228.story\" class=\"external external_icon\"> The man returns each year in the early morning darkness on Poe&#8217;s birthday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome says the visitor did not leave any note, not even to comment on the milestone anniversary. He adds the crowd was smaller than he expected and was better behaved than the rowdy groups that have attended the vigil in recent years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=poe+toaster\" class=\"external external_icon\">twitter search<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/2009\/01\/raising-glass-to-mr-poe.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">neil gaiman<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poe Toaster returned yesterday. I missed it. A-gain. Neil Gaiman did not forget. That&#8217;s just the kind of man he is. One day I&#8217;m driving my butt up there to stand in the cold of night to watch some old man put cognac and flowers on Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s grave. The curator of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29,14],"tags":[793,791,607,795,574,790,792,475,794],"class_list":["post-6347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-people-who-died","category-usa","tag-birthday","tag-cognac","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-graveyard-news","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-poe-toaster","tag-roses","tag-tweet-find","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}