{"id":28836,"date":"2019-07-21T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=28836"},"modified":"2019-07-21T09:01:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T06:01:38","slug":"the-great-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/21\/the-great-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"The great comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lovecraft_astronomy_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lovecraft_astronomy_cover.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"702\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28837\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another possible public-domain cover for a Lovecraft book on his astronomy. Trouvelot&#8217;s &#8220;The great comet of 1881&#8221;.  Taken from the largest .TIF, and tightly cropped from its white frame, and then given a slight edge-fix and clean in Photoshop.  Saved to a less unwieldy .JPG with only slight compression while maintaining 300dpi. Again, it&#8217;s of a large enough size to be a front\/back cover for a 6&#8243; x 9&#8243; Lulu POD book.  <\/p>\n<p>The Lovecraft connection is a little lacking, though.  1881 rather than his birth-year of 1890, and an observatory unlike that of the Ladd at Brown.  Still, if historical veracity wasn&#8217;t a concern then one might paint out the door, and paint in a backlit HPL silhouette standing in the doorway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another possible public-domain cover for a Lovecraft book on his astronomy. Trouvelot&#8217;s &#8220;The great comet of 1881&#8221;. Taken from the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/21\/the-great-comet\/\">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":[3,12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28836","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=28836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}