{"id":31681,"date":"2019-09-24T05:11:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T02:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=31681"},"modified":"2019-09-24T05:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T02:11:15","slug":"kittee-tuesday-black-cat-for-halloween-1905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/24\/kittee-tuesday-black-cat-for-halloween-1905\/","title":{"rendered":"Kittee Tuesday: Black Cat for Halloween 1905"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s interest in our fascinating felines.<\/p>\n<p>The cover for <em>The Black Cat<\/em> magazine, October 1905.  H.P. Lovecraft began to read this story-magazine in 1904, when he was aged about 14.  The cover of each issue featured the distinctive cat configured within various graphic designs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/halloween1905.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/halloween1905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"587\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea of a big reward + a black cat may have been especially poignant to the 15 year-old Lovecraft when he picked this off the news-stands or opened a subscription copy in the morning mail.  Because this edition was issued on the first year anniversary of the loss of his own beloved black cat, Trigger-ban, who had run away and been lost during the house-move of fall\/autumn 1904.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s interest in our fascinating felines. The cover for The Black Cat magazine, October 1905. H.P. Lovecraft began &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/09\/24\/kittee-tuesday-black-cat-for-halloween-1905\/\">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":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-kittee-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31681","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=31681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}