{"id":31311,"date":"2019-09-21T05:35:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T02:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=31311"},"modified":"2019-09-21T05:35:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T02:35:45","slug":"the-late-prof-upton-of-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/21\/the-late-prof-upton-of-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The late Prof. Upton of Brown&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The late Prof. Upton of Brown, a friend of the family, gave me the freedom of the college observatory, (Ladd Observatory) &amp; I came &amp; went there at will on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/08\/03\/lovecraft-on-a-bicycle\/\">bicycle<\/a>.&#8221; &mdash; H.P. Lovecraft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/uptoncol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/uptoncol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"880\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32061\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Possibly this was the man who saved Lovecraft&#8217;s life. As a youth Lovecraft was contemplating throwing himself into the river in despair &mdash; just before the kind offer came from Prof. Upton. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/upton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/upton.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"880\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/upton1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/upton1.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"833\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/upton2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/upton2.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The late Prof. Upton of Brown, a friend of the family, gave me the freedom of the college observatory, (Ladd &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/21\/the-late-prof-upton-of-brown\/\">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":[3,8,19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-historical-context","category-new-discoveries","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31311","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=31311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}