{"id":18678,"date":"2018-12-07T06:32:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T03:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=18678"},"modified":"2018-12-07T06:32:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T03:32:52","slug":"friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-cross-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/12\/07\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-cross-plains\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday &#8216;picture postals&#8217; from Lovecraft: Cross Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did Lovecraft ever receive &#8216;picture postals&#8217; from R. E. Howard, dropping through the mailbox in Providence?  Perhaps. Although Cross Plains, Texas, does not seem to have been the sort of place one would make a postcard of &mdash; unless perhaps one could do something artistic with sagebrush and cattle and a sunset.  But if they did once make such things as postcards, then it seems that a view of the town bank and main row of stores might have been the standard &#8216;town view&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/cross-plains-texas-1920s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/cross-plains-texas-1920s.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18679\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rogers photo, 1920s, newly repaired and colourised.<\/p>\n<p>I had a dig around on Archive.org and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/CaldwellTanksTowersOfWoodAndSteel1931\/page\/n33\">found<\/a> the town&#8217;s water-tower, as seen behind the stores in the above picture, in full-length and in detail. One can see figures standing on the top railing and sitting on the bottom struts, for scale&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/cross-plains.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/cross-plains.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"464\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18698\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Lovecraft ever receive &#8216;picture postals&#8217; from R. E. Howard, dropping through the mailbox in Providence? Perhaps. Although Cross Plains, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/12\/07\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-cross-plains\/\">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-18678","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\/18678","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=18678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}