{"id":21034,"date":"2015-11-23T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=21034"},"modified":"2015-11-23T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T20:45:39","slug":"salon-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/23\/salon-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"In which H. P. Lovecraft causes me to be quoted (and I state my position on such things)"},"content":{"rendered":"

While reading Salon’s recent post<\/a> about the controversy over H. P. Lovecraft and the use of his face on the World Fantasy Award trophy, I was surprised to find that halfway down the piece was … me!<\/p>\n

\"SalonLovecraftTweetQuote\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’d tweeted last week<\/a> about how once the board announced it was changing to a more inclusive symbol for the trophy, news broke that a different organization was embracing Lovecraft, one which didn’t find his racist views<\/a> at all problematic …<\/p>\n

\"MyNewLovecraftAwardTweet\"<\/a><\/p>\n

… and my “Whoa!” was somehow deemed newsworthy.<\/p>\n

I have no problem with that.<\/p>\n

In fact, it isn’t even the first time a journalist picked up on one my tweets. Back in 2014, Good Morning America<\/em> showed one of my tweets on screen during a story about Alinea chef Grant Achatz having to deal with a crying baby<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Which makes this a good time, I suppose, for me to publicly state my position on the matter of the news media sharing my tweets. To repeat:<\/p>\n

I have no problem with that.<\/p>\n

I consider whatever I say over on Twitter<\/a> to have been said in a public forum, and that my words there are as ripe for quotation as any statement I might make from a stage in a public venue, as long as no editing’s done to change my meaning and there is proper attribution and linkage. <\/p>\n

I know there are others who feel more protective of their tweets, which is their prerogative and something I hope journalists respect. But as for me, if I should accidentally happen to tweet anything which makes enough sense you feel it worth quoting—quote away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While reading Salon’s recent post about the controversy over H. P. Lovecraft and the use of his face on the World Fantasy Award trophy, I was surprised to find that halfway down the piece was … me! I’d tweeted last week about how once the board announced it was changing to a more inclusive symbol […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,677,11],"class_list":["post-21034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-h-p-lovecraft","tag-twitter","tag-world-fantasy-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21034"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21048,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21034\/revisions\/21048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}