{"id":49705,"date":"2021-09-12T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=49705"},"modified":"2021-09-12T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T02:30:10","slug":"old-world-footprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/09\/12\/old-world-footprints\/","title":{"rendered":"Old World Footprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Deep Cuts<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/deepcuts.blog\/2021\/09\/04\/old-world-footprints-1928-by-cassie-symmes-portrait-of-ambrose-bierce-1929-by-adolphe-de-castro\/\">peruses<\/a> the relatively new edition of <em>Old World Footprints<\/em>\u00a0(1928) by Cassie Symmes, Belknap Long&#8217;s aunt. She had been very impressed by Cook&#8217;s printing and binding for her nephew&#8217;s slim volume of poetry. So much so that she commissioned Cook to publish 300 copies of her own account of a tour of Europe. I see the book can now be had as a budget Kindle ebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3nk7qR8\"><em>Old World Footprints<\/em> [Print Replica]<\/a>, in the new edited and annotated edition. <\/p>\n<p>The attraction for (very dedicated) Lovecraftians is that Lovecraft was ghosting for Long on the Introduction&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>actually ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft proofread the book for Cook, and may have edited it as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep Cuts peruses the relatively new edition of Old World Footprints\u00a0(1928) by Cassie Symmes, Belknap Long&#8217;s aunt. She had been &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/09\/12\/old-world-footprints\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49705","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=49705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}