{"id":52761,"date":"2022-02-23T03:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T03:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=52761"},"modified":"2022-02-23T03:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T03:23:19","slug":"1972-on-the-seekonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/02\/23\/1972-on-the-seekonk\/","title":{"rendered":"1972 on the Seekonk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popped up on eBay, a 1972 bird&#8217;s eye view of one of Lovecraft&#8217;s favourite summer places. The wooded bluffs above the Seekonk, Providence. Specifically the bluffs either side of York Pond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/seekonkyorkhpl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/seekonkyorkhpl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"507\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-52762\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the present moment I am seated on a wooded bluff above the shining river which my earliest gaze knew and loved. This part of my boyhood world is unchanged because it is a part of the local park system [Blackstone Park, alongside the Seekonk] &mdash; may the gods be thanked for keeping inviolate the scenes which my infant imagination peopled with fauns and satyrs and dryads!&#8221; (Selected Letters IV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It strikes me that an annual and thorough &#8216;Lovecraft March&#8217; litter-pick (U.S.: trash-pickup?) across the bluffs might be a nice way of honouring his memory, each 1st March? Or whenever the ground becomes less moist in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popped up on eBay, a 1972 bird&#8217;s eye view of one of Lovecraft&#8217;s favourite summer places. The wooded bluffs above &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/02\/23\/1972-on-the-seekonk\/\">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":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52761","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=52761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}