{"id":59934,"date":"2023-05-26T03:40:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T03:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=59934"},"modified":"2023-05-25T23:40:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T23:40:55","slug":"in-cat-swamp-lovecrafts-herbarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/05\/26\/in-cat-swamp-lovecrafts-herbarium\/","title":{"rendered":"In Cat Swamp: Lovecraft&#8217;s Herbarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers will recall the young Lovecraft roaming in Cat Swamp, Providence. It was also a richly wild and raggedy hunting-ground for botanists, at around the same time (c. 1900), and thus the plants of the swamp were both drawn\/painted and preserved as botanical pressings. Brown University now shows many of these in their online <a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/collections\/bdr:nz9qn2kb\/\">Herbarium<\/a> catalogue. <\/p>\n<p>So, something a little different for this Friday&#8217;s &#8216;Picture Postals from Lovecraft&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-24_194747.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-24_194747.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"325\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-24_194747.jpg 696w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-05-24_194747-528x325.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using some of the Brown (literally brown) scans of the botanical plant-books as sources, and sprinkling a little magic AI pixie-dust over them brings them back to horrible Lovecraftian life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"862\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_003.jpg 735w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_003-528x862.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"862\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_007.jpg 735w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_007-528x862.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"862\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_010.jpg 735w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_010-528x862.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"757\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_006.jpg 837w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_006-528x757.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_006-768x1101.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"862\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_004.jpg 735w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_004-528x862.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"862\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_002.jpg 735w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_002-528x862.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"862\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_001.jpg 735w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hpl_cat_swamp_001-528x862.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers will recall the young Lovecraft roaming in Cat Swamp, Providence. It was also a richly wild and raggedy hunting-ground &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/05\/26\/in-cat-swamp-lovecrafts-herbarium\/\">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":[37,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934","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=59934"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59959,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934\/revisions\/59959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}