{"id":1055,"date":"2010-08-19T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2010-08-19T19:07:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:07:55","slug":"old-ones-and-shoggoths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/19\/old-ones-and-shoggoths\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Ones and shoggoths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ernst Haeckel&#8217;s prints of the small and microscopic biological specimens collected by the British <em>HMS Challenger<\/em> expedition, printed in book form in 1904, <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&amp;search=Haeckel\">can be found on Wikimedia<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/old-ones.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"old-ones\" width=\"399\" height=\"213\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1056\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6a\/Haeckel_Siphonophorae.jpg\">the plates<\/a> may have been an inspiration to Lovecraft, especially in relation to the look of the Elder Things (Old Ones) and their Shoggoths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernst Haeckel&#8217;s prints of the small and microscopic biological specimens collected by the British HMS Challenger expedition, printed in book &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/19\/old-ones-and-shoggoths\/\">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":[8,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-new-discoveries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}