{"id":54262,"date":"2022-05-08T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=54262"},"modified":"2022-05-08T02:13:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T02:13:56","slug":"d-i-joshi-and-the-adventure-of-the-missing-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/05\/08\/d-i-joshi-and-the-adventure-of-the-missing-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;D.I. Joshi and the Adventure of the Missing Cover&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S.T. Joshi blogged that he liked the &#8220;1940s private detective&#8221; look of this recent night-picture of him, snapped in Providence. He regretted it could not be used a book cover for one of his mystery novels. There&#8217;s admittedly not a great deal that can be done with such a poor tiny 450-pixel night picture with the face in shadow, but I&#8217;ve had a quick go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Original:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/joshi-providence-night-2022-04-orig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/joshi-providence-night-2022-04-orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"455\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Makeover for a book cover, sized up for a Lulu print-on-demand paperback: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/joshi-providence-night-2022-04-coverfix1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/joshi-providence-night-2022-04-coverfix1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"808\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How well it would reproduce on paper I don&#8217;t know, though Lulu covers are usually quite good. But it should do for an ebook, with some nice typography added.<\/p>\n<p>Another version, de-blued and with the distracting &#8216;helicopter wing mirror&#8217; panel-thing gone, and the cloud shmushed to give the slightest subliminal hint of a tentacle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/joshi-providence-night-2022-04-coverfix2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/joshi-providence-night-2022-04-coverfix2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"808\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S.T. Joshi blogged that he liked the &#8220;1940s private detective&#8221; look of this recent night-picture of him, snapped in Providence. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/05\/08\/d-i-joshi-and-the-adventure-of-the-missing-cover\/\">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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54262","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=54262"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54277,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54262\/revisions\/54277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}