{"id":63036,"date":"2024-02-03T02:36:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T02:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=63036"},"modified":"2024-02-03T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T11:35:12","slug":"lovecraft-lore-dated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/02\/03\/lovecraft-lore-dated\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft Lore, dated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German Lovecraftians have a &#8220;new newsletter format&#8221; for members under the title <em>Lovecraft Lore<\/em>&#8230; &#8220;In which we send daily emails about events in H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s stories.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That sounds interesting. I guess one could now have an AI extract any &#8216;date like strings&#8217; from within the Lovecraft fiction corpus, covert them to a consistent date format and then sort them into a per-month year list. And alongside each, the story title and a snippet of the original context. The Python-based open source <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/akoumjian\/datefinder\">datefinder<\/a> looks like it&#8217;s half way towards that.<\/p>\n<p>The booklet <em>The Chronology Out of Time<\/em> (1986) made a first try at a simple megalist of dates in Lovecraft&#8217;s fiction. But it is now well out-of-print, and not on Archive.org. Perhaps time for a new AI-assisted expanded edition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Lovecraftians have a &#8220;new newsletter format&#8221; for members under the title Lovecraft Lore&#8230; &#8220;In which we send daily &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/02\/03\/lovecraft-lore-dated\/\">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-63036","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\/63036","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=63036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63067,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63036\/revisions\/63067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}