{"id":15729,"date":"2018-11-02T07:15:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T04:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=15729"},"modified":"2018-11-02T07:15:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T04:15:38","slug":"friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-providence-opera-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/02\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-providence-opera-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday \u201cpicture postals\u201d from Lovecraft: Providence Opera House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-opera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-opera.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15735\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Providence Opera House (green board and canopy, on the left of the picture).  It was a 1,500 seater.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; we were acquainted with Mr. Morrow [Robert Morrow], the lessee &amp; manager of Providence&#8217;s chief theatre \u2014 The Providence Opera House \u2014 (he lived directly across the street) so that it was not thought too shocking to let my aunt take me to see something [on the stage, when a young boy in 1896]&#8221; &mdash; H. P. Lovecraft, letter to Kleiner dated 16th November 1916.<\/p>\n<p>An impression of the pre-show hustle and bustle the boy Lovecraft might have encountered on arriving, before the age of the motor-car&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/download.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/download.jpg?w=213\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some may doubt that the boy Lovecraft was in one of those carriages.  Yet, at this time his family still had a horse &amp; carriage and a live-in coachman to drive it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providence Opera House (green board and canopy, on the left of the picture). It was a 1,500 seater. &#8220;&#8230; we &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/02\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-providence-opera-house\/\">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-15729","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\/15729","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=15729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}