{"id":9735,"date":"2010-01-20T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=9735"},"modified":"2010-01-20T02:01:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T08:01:17","slug":"60-years-later-poe-toaster-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/60-years-later-poe-toaster-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"60 Years Later: Poe Toaster No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidewalk_flying\/539547908\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/539547908_5406e8bf7c.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Edgar Allan Poe&#039;s grave\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/539547908_5406e8bf7c.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/539547908_5406e8bf7c-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" about=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidewalk_flying\/539547908\/\"><a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidewalk_flying\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidewalk_flying\/<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/2010\/01\/after_60_years_poe_toaster_tra.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">For 61 years, this man, or series of men, has honored Poe<\/a>, long before anyone thought to name the Baltimore NFL team after his most famous work, or even jokingly &#8212; I hope &#8212; squabble with Richmond, Va., New York City, Philadelphia and Boston over which city should house his bones.<\/p>\n<p>Many Poe enthusiasts would come from all over the country to witness the quiet, elegant nighttime ceremony in the dead of January, but the Toaster never spoke and never lingered long. In other words, he was the perfect mysterious benefactor, adding to the city&#8217;s strange mixture of romantic nostalgia and hard-nosed pragmatism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The odd little man that was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?tag=poe-toaster\">Poe Toaster<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/01\/20\/2796922.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\"> failed to show<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/2010\/01\/after_60_years_poe_toaster_tra.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Baltimore Sun<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidewalk_flying\/ \/ CC BY 2.0 For 61 years, this man, or series of men, has honored Poe, long before anyone thought to name the Baltimore NFL team after his most famous work, or even jokingly &#8212; I hope &#8212; squabble with Richmond, Va., New York City, Philadelphia and Boston over which city should house his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,14],"tags":[1894,31,607,790],"class_list":["post-9735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-who-died","category-usa","tag-baltimore","tag-culture","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-poe-toaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735","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=9735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9743,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735\/revisions\/9743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}