{"id":16072,"date":"2018-09-19T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=16072"},"modified":"2018-09-19T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T04:00:27","slug":"was-there-a-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/19\/was-there-a-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Was there a Lovecraft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A curious reader enquires of <em>Amazing Stories<\/em>, &#8220;Was there a Lovecraft?&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>His letter was published in the October 1951 issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/was-there-a-lovecraft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/was-there-a-lovecraft.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"918\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16073\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On transcribing the letter for publication, &#8220;H. P.&#8221; becomes &#8220;F. P.&#8221;, so we have to assume that the office-boy who typed up the hand-written letter was also unfamiliar with the &#8220;H. P. Lovecraft&#8221; name.  Despite working at a leading science-fiction magazine. And that his error was not caught by the Editor before printing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/amazing-0ct-1951.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/amazing-0ct-1951.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"764\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16074\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A curious reader enquires of Amazing Stories, &#8220;Was there a Lovecraft?&#8221; His letter was published in the October 1951 issue. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/09\/19\/was-there-a-lovecraft\/\">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-16072","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\/16072","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=16072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}