{"id":47,"date":"2014-01-17T11:17:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T11:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=47"},"modified":"2014-01-17T11:17:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T11:17:19","slug":"welcome-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Literary Tourist on the Loose<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This blog is all about adventures to places with literary associations. I published a book called <em>The Literary Tourist <\/em>in 2006 about the history of interest in writer\u2019s graves, houses, and landscapes in Britain. Ever since then I\u2019ve been publishing more scholarly work in the field. I\u2019ve started to include Europe and America in my field of vision, and have become more and more interested in literary commemoration today and for the future.\u00a0 My blog is a way to reflect on and share this work in progress, connecting with other literary tourists. If you\u2019d like to know more about my scholarly work, see the entries for it on Open Research Online; otherwise, why not come with me on my various adventures, seeking out places celebrated for their connections with writers and thinking about how they\u2019ve been marked, and why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literary Tourist on the Loose \u00a0 This blog is all about adventures to places with literary associations. I published a book called The Literary Tourist in 2006 about the history of interest in writer\u2019s graves, houses, and landscapes in Britain. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=47\" >Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}