{"id":3532,"date":"2013-01-16T20:11:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T01:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2013-01-16T20:11:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T01:11:48","slug":"the-american-mercury-is-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/religion\/the-american-mercury-is-online\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Mercury is Online!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was going to and fro on the Internet, and walking back and forth on it, I stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.org\/Home\/Introduction\">a site<\/a> that has made the content of every issue of H. L. Mencken&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.org\/Pub\/AmMercury\">American Mercury <\/a>available online.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a\u00a0wonderful resource if you&#8217;re interested in the politics, history, literature, etc., of the 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s, or just want to read something entertaining.\u00a0 The Sage of Baltimore was a great editor, and he won&#8217;t disappoint.\u00a0 He was at the helm of the magazine from the first issue in January 1924 until December 1933.\u00a0 The site actually includes issues up to 1960, but the content went downhill after Mencken left, and the Mercury eventually became something <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_American_Mercury\">entirely different<\/a> from what\u00a0he had intended.\u00a0 Many other interesting periodicals are available at the site, as well as books and videos.\u00a0 You can visit by clicking on the hyperlinks above or point your browser to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.org\/Pub\/AmMercury\">http:\/\/www.unz.org\/Pub\/AmMercury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.org\/Home\/Introduction\">http:\/\/www.unz.org\/Home\/Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3273\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3273\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/04\/us-politics\/h-l-menckens-last-post\/attachment\/mencken-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3273\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3273\" alt=\"H. L. Mencken\" src=\"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mencken.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mencken.jpg 280w, https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mencken-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 85vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">H. L. Mencken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=The+American+Mercury+is+Online%21\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/religion\/the-american-mercury-is-online\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was going to and fro on the Internet, and walking back and forth on it, I stumbled across a site that has made the content of every issue of H. L. Mencken&#8217;s American Mercury available online.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a\u00a0wonderful resource if you&#8217;re interested in the politics, history, literature, etc., of the 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/religion\/the-american-mercury-is-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The American Mercury is Online!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[85,8,34,44,53,7,30],"tags":[141,142],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-history","category-literature","category-military","category-politics","category-religion","category-world-politics","tag-mencken","tag-mercury"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwEq0-UY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}