{"id":2926,"date":"2019-02-08T09:57:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2019-02-08T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T14:57:46","slug":"new-column-in-mentem-insania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/?p=2926","title":{"rendered":"New Column: In Mentem Insania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"327\" height=\"286\" src=\"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMI-logo_jjs20190208.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2927\" srcset=\"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMI-logo_jjs20190208.jpg 327w, http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMI-logo_jjs20190208-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 85vw, 327px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cFear is a wonderful thing, in small doses. You ride the ghost train into the darkness, knowing that eventually the doors will open and you will step out into the daylight once again.\u201d -Neil Gaiman<br><\/em><br> As many of you may already know, in the last year or two there has been a surge of true crime podcasts. Some deal primarily with true crime, others address other things such as legends, cults, cryptids, and UFOlogy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> History is full of stories of killers, madmen, and nightmarish beasts. As a longtime reader of true crime I have been interested in these kinds of stories. In talking with others, I\u2019ve found that I\u2019m not alone in this interest. This has led to the creation of a monthly column, \u201cIn Mentem Insania\u201d.<br> Each month, on the 15th of the month, I will focus on an aspect of medieval true crime, legends, cults, and oddities. This includes: Erzebeth Bathory, Christman Gniepperteinga, Gilles de Rais, the Fehmgerichte in Westphalia, and the draugr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\nIf you have heard\nabout something that might be an interesting topic for this column, please\ncontact me at <a href=\"mailto:inmenteminsania@jennstrobel.com\">inmenteminsania@jennstrobel.com<\/a>. I\u2019m very open to pretty much\nanything that falls into the \u201cscary and odd\u201d range and happened between the\ndawn of time and 1600.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFear is a wonderful thing, in small doses. You ride the ghost train into the darkness, knowing that eventually the doors will open and you will step out into the daylight once again.\u201d -Neil Gaiman As many of you may already know, in the last year or two there has been a surge of true &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/?p=2926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Column: In Mentem Insania&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[243,244],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-column","tag-monthly"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}