{"id":15574,"date":"2018-10-12T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=15574"},"modified":"2018-10-12T06:05:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T03:05:08","slug":"friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-gorham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/12\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-gorham\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday &#8220;picture postals&#8221; from Lovecraft: Gorham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/gorham.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15575\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/gorham.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/gorham.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"327\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/gorham1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/gorham1.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"314\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18003\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/02\/gorham-silversmiths-1906\/\">Gorham Silversmiths<\/a>, Providence. Possible employer of H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s father as a salesman or buyer. Although according to S.T. Joshi&#8217;s <em>I Am Providence<\/em>, the only evidence we have for that is Sonia\u2019s hazy 1948 memories of what Lovecraft told her in the mid 1920s. On the other hand, the draft of &#8220;Innsmouth&#8221; might seem to show that Lovecraft had a special niche in his heart for men who were buyers for jewellery firms&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Before I knew it I found myself telling the fellow that I was a jewellery buyer for a Cleveland firm, and preparing myself to shew a merely professional interest in what I should see.&#8221; [in the Marsh Refinery showroom].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gorham Silversmiths, Providence. Possible employer of H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s father as a salesman or buyer. Although according to S.T. Joshi&#8217;s I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/12\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-gorham\/\">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":[8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15574","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=15574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}