{"id":15740,"date":"2018-11-09T07:10:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T04:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=15740"},"modified":"2018-11-09T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T04:10:11","slug":"friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-keiths-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/09\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-keiths-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday \u201cpicture postals\u201d from Lovecraft: Keith&#8217;s Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/keiths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/keiths.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"823\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15742\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not much of a vaudeville follower, but it happens that I saw him [Houdini] at the old Keith&#8217;s Theatre here nearly a quarter of a century ago [c. 1905] it must have been at the very outset of his career, for he was not then especially well known.&#8221; &mdash; H.P. Lovecraft, letter to Henneberger, 2nd February 1924.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/houdini-1905.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/houdini-1905.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"719\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15741\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poster (apparently genuine?) advertising Houdini&#8217;s 1905 tour, in this case the Newport stop in New England.  The word &#8220;Metamorphosis&#8221; would surely have caught the 15 or 16 year-old Lovecraft&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am not much of a vaudeville follower, but it happens that I saw him [Houdini] at the old Keith&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/09\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-keiths-theatre\/\">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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15740","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=15740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}