{"id":22487,"date":"2019-01-25T05:53:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T02:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=22487"},"modified":"2019-01-25T05:53:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T02:53:53","slug":"friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-the-rhode-island-letter-carrier-postman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/01\/25\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-the-rhode-island-letter-carrier-postman\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday \u201cpicture postals\u201d from Lovecraft: the Rhode Island letter-carrier (postman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The typical letter-carrier (in British parlance, &#8216;the postman&#8217;, in American &#8216;the mail-man&#8217;) of the 1900s, delivering the mail to houses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/rhode-island-letter-carrier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/rhode-island-letter-carrier.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"812\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22488\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One almost wonders if, at times, Lovecraft even had his own personal letter-carrier to haul up the hill his daily load of correspondence, subscription magazines and amateur journals, and occasional books. No doubt his aunts also had their share of correspondence and packages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The typical letter-carrier (in British parlance, &#8216;the postman&#8217;, in American &#8216;the mail-man&#8217;) of the 1900s, delivering the mail to houses. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/01\/25\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-the-rhode-island-letter-carrier-postman\/\">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-22487","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\/22487","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=22487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}