{"id":63463,"date":"2024-03-12T02:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T02:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=63463"},"modified":"2024-03-21T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:53:08","slug":"a-skull-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/a-skull-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A skull for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The booklet <em>Christmas with H.P. Lovecraft<\/em> now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hplovecraft.com\/writings\/sources\/chpl.aspx\">has a page on hplovecraft.com<\/a>, with detailed description and table-of-contents. This usefully shows that none of the letters were excerpted, which seems a pity. The publication is poems, &#8220;The Festival&#8221; and the &#8216;Christmas Greetings&#8217; ditties sent to friends (and friends&#8217; cats) at Christmas. One might have hoped that the compiler could have slipped in just two or three bits from the letters. Which Brown consider to be in the public domain. I mean, how could one leave out something like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Yule (Christmas)] here was commendably cheerful &mdash; including a turkey dinner at the boarding-house across the garden, with a congenial cat meandering among the tables and finally jumping up on the windowseat for a nap. We had a tree by the living-room fireplace &mdash; its verdant boughs thickly festooned with a tinsel imitation of Florida&#8217;s best Spanish moss, and its outlines emphasised by a not ungraceful lighting system. Around its base were ranged the modest Saturnalian gifts &mdash; which included (on my side) a hassock [a cushioned wooden foot-stool] tall enough to let me reach the top shelves of my bookcases [&#8230;]. Of outside gifts the most distinctive was perhaps that which came quite unexpectedly from one of the kid fantasy fan group [&#8230;] when I had removed numberless layers of corrugated paper and excelsior, what should I find before me but the yellowed and crumbling fragments of a long-interred human skull!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The booklet Christmas with H.P. Lovecraft now has a page on hplovecraft.com, with detailed description and table-of-contents. This usefully shows &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/03\/12\/a-skull-for-christmas\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63463","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=63463"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63570,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63463\/revisions\/63570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}