{"id":59315,"date":"2023-04-18T04:16:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T04:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=59315"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:38:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T14:38:39","slug":"rocking-in-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/rocking-in-minneapolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocking in Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;MinnConn&#8221; paper flyer, said to be from Minneapolis in 1975. The picture is from a new Abe sale listing (now sold). &#8220;MinnConn&#8221; was presumably fannish, but nothing can be discovered about it under that name. Possibly a mis-typing for Minicon (Minneapolis)? <\/p>\n<p>Ah yes, here we go&#8230; it must have been for the Minicon 10 (Minneapolis) fan convention held in April 1975. There was no autumn fall-con in Minneapolis in 1975, so that must be it. Sadly Archive.org only has the convention booklet and not the initial PR flyers.<\/p>\n<p>The photo is of Lovecraft somewhere out in the wilds, standing on a spur of rock. Possibly a coastal rock-cleft. He looks to be a chunky young fellow (no &#8216;reducing&#8217; diet, yet), and may be wearing glasses. Honeymoon?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/oktoberfest1975.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/oktoberfest1975.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do any <em>Tentaclii<\/em> readers know, offhand, where a larger version of this picture might be found?<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hplovecraft.com\/life\/gallery.aspx?PhotoID=30\">August 1922 at Magnolia, Mass.<\/a>, though the online version that gives the date\/location is still small and also cropped. Is there a bigger print version somewhere?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;MinnConn&#8221; paper flyer, said to be from Minneapolis in 1975. The picture is from a new Abe sale listing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/04\/18\/rocking-in-minneapolis\/\">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-59315","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\/59315","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=59315"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59344,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59315\/revisions\/59344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}