{"id":12835,"date":"2014-08-25T07:33:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T04:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=12835"},"modified":"2014-08-25T07:33:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T04:33:39","slug":"boston-subway-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/08\/25\/boston-subway-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston subway, 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1280px-tremont_and_boylston_streets_by_acgoodwin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1280px-tremont_and_boylston_streets_by_acgoodwin.png?w=529\" alt=\"1280px-Tremont_and_Boylston_Streets_by_ACGoodwin\" width=\"529\" height=\"414\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12836\" \/><\/a>Picture: Entrances to the Boston subway line, Tremont and Boylston Streets, Boston (1915).  Painting by Arthur C. Goodwin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lynch &amp; I were the last to go. His toothache excited my sympathy, but sympathy could not cure it. He left the [tram] car at the Boylston Street subway station, &amp; thereafter I was alone.&#8221; &mdash; Lovecraft on attending the Hub Club Conference on 5th September 1920, Boston, at which he met Morton for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then we split up into narrow columns, each of which seemed drawn in a different direction. One disappeared in a narrow alley to the left, leaving only the echo of a shocking moan. Another filed down a weed-choked subway entrance, howling with a laughter that was mad.&#8221; &mdash; H.P. Lovecraft, &#8220;Nyarlathotep&#8221; (1920).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God, how that man could paint! There was a study called &#8216;Subway Accident,&#8217; in which a flock of the vile things were clambering up from some unknown catacomb through a crack in the floor of the Boston Street subway and attacking a crowd of people on the platform.&#8221; &mdash; H.P. Lovecraft, &#8220;Pickman&#8217;s Model&#8221; (1926).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture: Entrances to the Boston subway line, Tremont and Boylston Streets, Boston (1915). Painting by Arthur C. Goodwin. &#8220;Lynch &amp; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/08\/25\/boston-subway-1915\/\">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-12835","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\/12835","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=12835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}