{"id":12649,"date":"2014-08-16T07:57:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T04:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=12649"},"modified":"2014-08-16T07:57:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T04:57:51","slug":"glowing-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/08\/16\/glowing-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Glowing creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A visual taxonomy of <a href=\"www.popsci.com\/article\/science\/who-knows-what-glows\">glowing creatures<\/a>, a new infographic made by Eleanor Lutz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/glowingeleanorlutz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/glowingeleanorlutz.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"glowingEleanorLutz\" width=\"529\" height=\"794\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>absolutely marvellous firefly display &#8230; All agree that it was unprecedented, even for Wilbraham.  Level fields &amp; woodland aisles were alive with dancing lights, till all the night seemed one restless constellation of nervous witch-fire.  They leaped in the meadows, &amp; under the spectral old oaks at the bend of the road.  They danced tumultuously in the swampy hollow, &amp; held witches\u2019 sabbaths beneath the gnarled, ancient trees of the orchard\u201d.  [Lovecraft went to bed afterwards, intending to dream the fireflies into&#8230;] \u201cspectral torches, &amp; about the lean brown marsh-things (invisible to mortal eyes) who wave &amp; brandish them in the gloaming when the unseen nether world awakes.\u201d &mdash; letter to his aunt Lillian, 1st July 1928, kindly supplied in transcript by David Shultz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visual taxonomy of glowing creatures, a new infographic made by Eleanor Lutz. absolutely marvellous firefly display &#8230; All agree &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/08\/16\/glowing-creatures\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649","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=12649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}