{"id":45855,"date":"2021-06-18T05:29:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T02:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=45855"},"modified":"2021-06-18T05:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T02:29:48","slug":"picture-postals-from-lovecraft-a-hot-day-under-the-brooklyn-elevated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/06\/18\/picture-postals-from-lovecraft-a-hot-day-under-the-brooklyn-elevated\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Picture Postals&#8217; from Lovecraft: a hot day under the Brooklyn Elevated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hot day under the Brooklyn Elevated railway, 1933, or the &#8216;El&#8217; as Lovecraft&#8217;s letters often called the city&#8217;s elevated train service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1933-el-brooklyn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/1933-el-brooklyn.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"793\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45856\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trains would periodically thunder noisily above the walker, as seen in the picture. In a letter Lovecraft once reported that his friend Frank Belknap Long had to &#8216;hike for the El&#8217;, meaning Long had to walk a long distance on the sidewalk under the high rails. With the aim of reaching the wooden stairs leading up to an elevated platform, and a rail line heading in the desired direction. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/el.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/el.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"852\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45861\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hot day under the Brooklyn Elevated railway, 1933, or the &#8216;El&#8217; as Lovecraft&#8217;s letters often called the city&#8217;s elevated &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/06\/18\/picture-postals-from-lovecraft-a-hot-day-under-the-brooklyn-elevated\/\">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":[9,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housekeeping","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45855","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=45855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}