{"id":12108,"date":"2014-07-15T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=12108"},"modified":"2014-07-15T10:15:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T07:15:10","slug":"james-f-morton-cuttings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/15\/james-f-morton-cuttings\/","title":{"rendered":"James F. Morton cuttings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The marriage of Lovecraft&#8217;s friend James F. Morton, reported in the amateur press&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/morton-marr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/morton-marr.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"morton-marr\" width=\"529\" height=\"816\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12109\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His wife giving a glimpse of their life in Paterson&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/wife-on-paterson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/wife-on-paterson.jpg\" alt=\"wife-on-paterson\" width=\"348\" height=\"147\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pearl K. Merritt was the sister of Dench&#8217;s wife, and thus not &mdash; as some university academics have claimed and as late as 2008 &mdash; &#8220;an African-American woman&#8221;. Morton&#8217;s death by a car accident, reported in the amateur press&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/morton_death.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/morton_death.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"morton_death\" width=\"529\" height=\"705\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12111\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/morton-1896.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/morton-1896.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"morton-1896\" width=\"529\" height=\"636\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report of his death implies that, as one of the leaders of the Puzzlers&#8217; Club, he may have played a part in wartime code-breaking efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marriage of Lovecraft&#8217;s friend James F. Morton, reported in the amateur press&#8230; His wife giving a glimpse of their &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/15\/james-f-morton-cuttings\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108","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=12108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}