{"id":18793,"date":"2018-10-25T20:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=18793"},"modified":"2018-10-25T20:08:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:08:49","slug":"the-abbey-frescoes-of-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/25\/the-abbey-frescoes-of-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"The Abbey frescoes of Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As for Abbey \u2014 you ought to see his Holy Grail frescoes in the Boston Public Library!&#8221; &mdash; H.P. Lovecraft to August Derleth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/quest15cards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/quest15cards.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18794\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One imagines that Lovecraft or his aunts might have once owned a set of these postcards.  Today good pictures can be seen online <a href=\"http:\/\/art-in-space.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/edwin-austin-abbey-quest-for-holy-grail.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Library definitely seems to have been a place Lovecraft would have enjoyed for its creepy atmosphere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/photomain-entranceboston-public-librarymac1895.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/photomain-entranceboston-public-librarymac1895.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18795\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/vtg-1907-postcard-staircase-boston-public-library-lion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/vtg-1907-postcard-staircase-boston-public-library-lion.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18797\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1907-boston-ma-public-library-delivery-room-postcard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1907-boston-ma-public-library-delivery-room-postcard.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18798\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/boston-ma-reading-room-in-the-bates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/boston-ma-reading-room-in-the-bates.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18796\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As for Abbey \u2014 you ought to see his Holy Grail frescoes in the Boston Public Library!&#8221; &mdash; H.P. Lovecraft &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/25\/the-abbey-frescoes-of-boston\/\">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-18793","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\/18793","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=18793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}