{"id":1395,"date":"2024-01-25T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:08:08","slug":"calling-the-spirits-a-history-of-seances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/calling-the-spirits-a-history-of-seances\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ee-big-quote wp-block-paragraph\">&ldquo;The unusual name was supplied by [Elijah] Bond\u2019s sister-in-law, medium Helen Peters, who asked the board for a name and watched as it spelled O-U-I-J-A (although there\u2019s also been speculation that the name is a combination of the French and German words for \u2018yes\u2019).&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/345026.Lisa_Morton\"><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lisa Morton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1321],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","tag-lisa-morton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}