{"id":16200,"date":"2018-11-16T07:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T04:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=16200"},"modified":"2018-11-16T07:25:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T04:25:03","slug":"friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-crown-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/16\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-crown-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday &#8220;picture postals&#8221; from Lovecraft: Crown Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/crown-hotel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/crown-hotel.jpg?w=190\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;She [Sonia] visited Lovecraft in Providence on 4-5 September, staying at the Crown Hotel.&#8221; &mdash; S.T. Joshi, <em>I Am Providence<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/crown-hotel-lobby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/crown-hotel-lobby.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Having entertained Lovecraft and his aunt for lunch at the Crown Hotel, Sonia suggested inviting several leading amateurs [to town]&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; L. Sprague deCamp, <em>Lovecraft: A Biography<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One wonders if Sonia treated Lovecraft to a &#8216;Deep One&#8217; ice-cream sundae at the Hotel&#8217;s &#8216;Deep Sea Cocktail Lounge&#8217;, in lieu of something alcoholic&#8230; though perhaps it wasn&#8217;t opened until the 1930s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/deep-sea-cocktail-crown-hotel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/deep-sea-cocktail-crown-hotel.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-the-crown-hotel-deep-sea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-the-crown-hotel-deep-sea.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45713\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;She [Sonia] visited Lovecraft in Providence on 4-5 September, staying at the Crown Hotel.&#8221; &mdash; S.T. Joshi, I Am Providence. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/16\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-crown-hotel\/\">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":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-discoveries","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200","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=16200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}