{"id":23395,"date":"2019-02-22T06:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T03:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=23395"},"modified":"2019-02-22T06:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T03:01:50","slug":"friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-prospect-terrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/02\/22\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-prospect-terrace\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday &#8216;picture postals&#8217; from Lovecraft: Prospect Terrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-terrace-clean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-terrace-clean.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"318\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the mystic sunset flaming beyond the antient Baptist steeple, the narrow colonial hill streets with their fanlights &amp; double rows of steps, &amp; the great outspread sea of roofs &amp; domes &amp; spires leading off to the purple western hills as glimpsed from old Prospect Terrace? Zeus! the charm &amp; mystery of the violet early evening, when the lights of the ancient city below began to twinkle forth one by one! [&#8230;] Why, Sir, modernity cannot exist for one who has really gazed upon the elder world!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the sunset, seen beyond the mystical spires and domes of the lower town from Prospect Terrace, always fill[s] me with a curious sensation of opening gates and about-to-be-revealed wonders&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What I want [is] a seclusion amidst ancient scenes wherein I may cast off the actual modern world in a quiet round of reading, writing, &amp; pilgrimages to quaint &amp; historick places. I want to dream in an atmosphere of my childhood &mdash; to sit on Prospect Terrace with an old book or a pad &amp; pencil in my hands.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the mystic sunset flaming beyond the antient Baptist steeple, the narrow colonial hill streets with their fanlights &amp; double rows &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/02\/22\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-prospect-terrace\/\">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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395","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=23395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}