{"id":44898,"date":"2021-02-09T05:11:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T02:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=44898"},"modified":"2022-04-24T21:58:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:58:26","slug":"on-xuchotl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/02\/09\/on-xuchotl\/","title":{"rendered":"On Xuchotl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new deep-dive by a R.E. Howard scholar into the question: <a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/red-nails-did-howard-create-the-city-of-xuchotl-from-a-real-life-inspiration\/\">&#8220;Red Nails&#8221;: Did Howard Create the City of Xuchotl From a Real-Life Inspiration?<\/a> The case is unproven one way or the other, but it&#8217;s an interesting and well-illustrated investigation, and touches on a comment he made to H.P. Lovecraft. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/barry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/barry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"601\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44907\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.org\/red-nails-by-robert-e-howard\/\">LibriVox has a free audiobook<\/a> of the long tale, at around 3.5 hours depending on how you nudge the playback speed.  See also my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/09\/15\/r-e-howard-audio-books\/\">R.E. Howard audio books for Conan<\/a> in story-world order, to see where this story fits in the Conan timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new deep-dive by a R.E. Howard scholar into the question: &#8220;Red Nails&#8221;: Did Howard Create the City of Xuchotl &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/02\/09\/on-xuchotl\/\">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":[8,23,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-podcasts-etc","category-reh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44898","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=44898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53789,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44898\/revisions\/53789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}