{"id":50571,"date":"2021-10-30T03:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=50571"},"modified":"2022-04-11T07:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T07:22:34","slug":"quinns-day-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/10\/30\/quinns-day-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinn&#8217;s day-job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lovecraft letter reveals an item I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever noted elsewhere. Lovecraft states that his <em>Weird Tales<\/em> rival, Seabury Quinn, held a day-job as the Editor of <em>The Casket<\/em>. This being the twice-monthly trade journal for undertakers. <em>Bacon&#8217;s Publicity Manual<\/em> states of the title in 1933&#8230; &#8220;Goes to funeral directors and embalmers; circulation 8,900.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lovecraft letter reveals an item I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever noted elsewhere. Lovecraft states that his Weird Tales rival, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/10\/30\/quinns-day-job\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50571","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=50571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53356,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50571\/revisions\/53356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}