{"id":422,"date":"2010-08-02T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T06:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2010-08-02T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T06:34:50","slug":"twits-for-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/02\/twits-for-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Twits for\u00a0Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innsmouthfreepress.com\/?p=7048\">Tweeting Cthulhu contest<\/a>. <em>Nooo! The horror!!<\/em> Although it seems somehow appropriate to choose the ugliest form of media to celebrate Lovecraft&#8217;s 120th birthday on 20th August.  Can you convey cosmic horror in 140 characters?  <\/p>\n<p>I guess the message would look more Lovecraftian if also presented in the guise of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegramstop.com\/Home.mvc.aspx\">an old fashioned telegram card<\/a>.  Propnomicon kindly has a <a href=\"http:\/\/propnomicon.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/period-western-union-telegram.html\">hi-res Western Union telegram blank<\/a> (more genuine historical samples <a href=\"http:\/\/historical.ha.com\/common\/view_item.php?Sale_No=625&amp;Lot_No=25417&amp;type=temcn060305a#Photo\">here<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/fonts.zaraf.ro\/font2419\/InterstateLightCondensed.htm\">Interstate-LightCondensed<\/a> is the font you want for making such telegrams with Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>[ Hat-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/rexscribarum.wordpress.com\/\">Rex Scribarum<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweeting Cthulhu contest. Nooo! The horror!! Although it seems somehow appropriate to choose the ugliest form of media to celebrate &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/02\/twits-for-lovecraft\/\">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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}