{"id":77,"date":"2016-12-18T16:11:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T16:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2016-12-18T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T17:26:13","slug":"retro-forteana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/retro-forteana\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro-Forteana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ron_goulart_books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-79 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ron_goulart_books-1024x561.jpg\" alt=\"Books by Ron Goulart\" width=\"700\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ron_goulart_books-1024x561.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ron_goulart_books-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ron_goulart_books-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ron_goulart_books.jpg 1926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBefore setting up this new blog, I kept up a Blogger-hosted blog for over five years. I changed its name a couple of times, but eventually settled on <a href=\"http:\/\/forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Retro-Forteana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This new blog isn&#8217;t meant to be a direct replacement for the old one (the posts will probably be shorter and less frequent) but there will be a lot of overlap in subject-matter. Here&#8217;s a selection of recent posts from the old blog that are the sort of thing I might post on this new one:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/05\/the-somerset-space-walk.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Somerset Space Walk<\/a> \u2013 an unusual tourist attraction near Taunton<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/06\/the-hell-fire-club.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Hell-Fire Club<\/a> \u2013 spooky caves in West Wycombe<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/07\/the-museum-of-witchcraft-and-magic.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic<\/a> \u2013 an unusual museum in Cornwall<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/07\/the-enfield-haunting.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Enfield Haunting<\/a> \u2013 an excellent TV miniseries, now on DVD<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/08\/the-loch-ness-centre-and-exhibition.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Loch Ness Centre and Exhibition<\/a> \u2013 surprisingly serious and informative<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/08\/ron-goularts-cheap-thrills.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Goulart&#8217;s Cheap Thrills<\/a> \u2013 nostalgic paperbacks (as pictured above)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/09\/astronomical-computers-old-ones.html\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomical computers<\/a> \u2013 astrolabes and human computers in Greenwich<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/09\/contradiction-all-video-murder-mystery.html\" target=\"_blank\">Contradiction: the All-Video Murder Mystery<\/a> \u2013 an excellent video game<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To see a full list of my 370+ Retro-Forteana posts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrew-may.com\/blog_old.htm\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before setting up this new blog, I kept up a Blogger-hosted blog for over five years. I changed its name a couple of times, but eventually settled on Retro-Forteana. This new blog isn&#8217;t meant to be a direct replacement for the old one (the posts will probably be shorter and less frequent) but there will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/retro-forteana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retro-Forteana&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,3,11,13,15,7,17],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astronomy","tag-blogging","tag-fortean-places","tag-museums","tag-paranormal","tag-science-fiction","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}