{"id":26676,"date":"2019-06-18T06:53:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T03:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=26676"},"modified":"2019-06-18T06:53:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T03:53:27","slug":"kittee-tuesday-unknown-feb-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/06\/18\/kittee-tuesday-unknown-feb-1942\/","title":{"rendered":"Kittee Tuesday: Unknown, Feb 1942"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s keen interest in our mysterious felines.<\/p>\n<p>The opening illustration by Edd Cartier, for L. Ron Hubbard&#8217;s story in the newly digest-sized <em>Unknown<\/em> (February 1942), channelling the European fairy-tale tradition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/edd-cartier-hubbard-story-amazing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/edd-cartier-hubbard-story-amazing.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"489\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26677\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/unknown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/unknown.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"160\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26678\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lovecraft once had a long restaurant conversation with the flame-haired and young Hubbard, according to Frank Belknap Long.  While impressed by the &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; lad, he evidently felt Hubbard was too professional and un-cosmic a writer to strike up a correspondence with.  One wonders if Hubbard may have written a cat horror story as something of a salute to the recently deceased Lovecraft, on learning about the old gent&#8217;s keen interest in felines?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s keen interest in our mysterious felines. The opening illustration by Edd Cartier, for L. Ron Hubbard&#8217;s story &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/06\/18\/kittee-tuesday-unknown-feb-1942\/\">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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kittee-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676","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=26676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}