{"id":24532,"date":"2019-04-09T05:47:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=24532"},"modified":"2019-04-09T05:47:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:47:08","slug":"on-meeting-hpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/04\/09\/on-meeting-hpl\/","title":{"rendered":"On meeting HPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New on Archive.org, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/MagazineOfHorror12V02n06196566Winter\/page\/n81\"><em>Magazine of Horror<\/em>, Winter 1965<\/a>.  With &#8220;Memories of H.P.L.&#8221; by Muriel E. Eddy.  Very short, but with one seemingly still-vivid memory of Lovecraft&#8217;s appearance when they first met in 1923&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We met H.P.L. as he liked to be called, in August, 1923, after months of correspondence. He was immaculate, though conservatively dressed. He wore a neat gray suit, white shirt, black necktie, and a Panama straw hat. His hair was as dark as a raven&#8217;s wing, and meticulously parted on the side. He wore spectacles, and behind them his eyes were gentle and brown. He extended lean white fingers in a typical Lovecraftian gesture, we shook hands&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New on Archive.org, Magazine of Horror, Winter 1965. With &#8220;Memories of H.P.L.&#8221; by Muriel E. Eddy. Very short, but with &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/04\/09\/on-meeting-hpl\/\">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":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24532","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=24532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}