{"id":34310,"date":"2020-01-17T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T02:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=34310"},"modified":"2020-01-17T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T02:03:10","slug":"the-dexter-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/01\/17\/the-dexter-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dexter Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/postcard-ri-dexter-asylum-poor-house-east-side.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/postcard-ri-dexter-asylum-poor-house-east-side.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"323\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1910-dexter-asylum-providence-ri-east_side.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1910-dexter-asylum-providence-ri-east_side.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-34311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hope Street English and Classical High School [&#8230;] was a good mile from Lovecraft\u2019s 598 Angell Street home, but there was no closer public high school to which he could have gone. [His route to school was long and] perhaps skirting the large property housing the Dexter Asylum (a home for the indigent), which obtruded along his path. [&#8230;] The trip was not insignificant, as is perhaps reflected in the fair number of times during his first term of 1904\u201305 that Lovecraft reported late [attendance, in the school records]&#8221; &mdash; S.T. Joshi, <em>I Am Providence<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/dexter-hospital-providence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/dexter-hospital-providence.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"329\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37657\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/c1910-dexter-asylum-poor-housing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/c1910-dexter-asylum-poor-housing.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also known as the Dexter Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope Street English and Classical High School [&#8230;] was a good mile from Lovecraft\u2019s 598 Angell Street home, but there &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/01\/17\/the-dexter-asylum\/\">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":[8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34310","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=34310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}