{"id":35410,"date":"2020-02-21T05:33:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T02:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=35410"},"modified":"2020-02-21T05:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T02:33:31","slug":"venus-in-westminster-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/02\/21\/venus-in-westminster-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus in Westminster Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-westminster-street-looking-east.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-westminster-street-looking-east.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35411\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The marvellous brilliancy of [the planet (that looks like a star)] Venus toward the close of the month will probably cause many persons ignorant of astronomy to mistake it for an artificial light; indeed, one evening about five years ago Westminster Street was lined with curious and excited watchers who pointed out the planet as the searchlight of an a\u00ebroplane.&#8221;  &mdash; H.P. Lovecraft, &#8220;The September Sky&#8221; from his regular astronomy column.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by the female fashions and the electric trams the picture might be the late 1900s, and thus about the time of the &#8220;about five years ago&#8221; Lovecraft refers to in his 1914 column. In the picture a sign for the Empire Theater can just about be discerned, in the distance on the right.  Illiteracy is still a factor in everyday life &mdash; as evidenced by the visual shop signs such as a huge key for a locksmith and key-cutter, and an eye for an optician. Lovecraft&#8217;s College Hill is glimpsed, rising up as some smudges of green at the end of the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The marvellous brilliancy of [the planet (that looks like a star)] Venus toward the close of the month will probably &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/02\/21\/venus-in-westminster-street\/\">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":[3,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-historical-context","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35410","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=35410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}