{"id":49691,"date":"2021-09-10T02:42:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=49691"},"modified":"2021-09-10T02:42:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:42:22","slug":"friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-waiting-for-the-midnight-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-waiting-for-the-midnight-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday &#8216;Picture Postals&#8217; from Lovecraft: waiting for the night bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/midnight-bus-on-westminsterst-providence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/midnight-bus-on-westminsterst-providence.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"660\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49692\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>Waiting for the night bus, Westminster Street, Providence. Probably the first 4.30am early-service, given what&#8217;s on the clock. Or perhaps a tram-car, as the road-rails and cables can still be seen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lovecraft often departed or arrived in Providence at odd hours, and not always by train. The ends of his local night-walks may also have entailed waiting at various types of transport stop. Night scenes such as this one in the city&#8217;s main Westminster Street seem likely to have been relatively familiar to him.<\/p>\n<p>He also, briefly, worked as a ticket-booth man. Mostly likely at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/05\/01\/h-p-lovecraft-ticket-taker\/\">a cinema on Westminster Street<\/a>, which may have entailed some late working hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for the night bus, Westminster Street, Providence. Probably the first 4.30am early-service, given what&#8217;s on the clock. Or perhaps &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-waiting-for-the-midnight-bus\/\">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":[20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-night-in-providence","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49691","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=49691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}