{"id":64360,"date":"2024-06-11T02:31:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T02:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=64360"},"modified":"2024-06-10T21:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T21:00:43","slug":"lovecraft-and-felis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/lovecraft-and-felis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft and Felis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new, human <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RNEYOFhZQS8\">reading on YouTube, of two short Christmas poems<\/a> by Lovecraft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/felis-fin2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/felis-fin2-528x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"297\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-64361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/felis-fin2-528x297.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/felis-fin2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/felis-fin2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christmas Greetings to Felis<\/strong> (Frank Belknap Long\u2019s cat)<\/p>\n<p>Little Tiger, burning bright<br \/>\nWith a subtle Blakeish light,<br \/>\nTell what visions have their home<br \/>\nIn those eyes of flame and chrome!<br \/>\nChildren vex thee \u2014 thoughtless, gay \u2014<br \/>\nHolding when thou wouldst away:<br \/>\nWhat dark lore is that which thou,<br \/>\nSpitting, mixest with thy meow?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<em>&#8220;Blakeish&#8221;<\/em> = William Blake, the &#8216;Tiger, Tiger&#8217; poet).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Egyptian Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haughty Sphinx, whose amber eyes<br \/>\nHold the secrets of the skies,<br \/>\nAs thou ripplest in thy grace,<br \/>\nRound the chairs and chimney-place,<br \/>\nScorn on thy patrician face:<br \/>\nRise not harsh, nor use thy claws<br \/>\nOn the hand that gives applause \u2014<br \/>\nGood-will only doth abide<br \/>\nIn these lines at Christmastide!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>And here is the tiger-striped Felis, being held by Lovecraft&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hplholds-felis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/hplholds-felis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new, human reading on YouTube, of two short Christmas poems by Lovecraft. Christmas Greetings to Felis (Frank Belknap Long\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/lovecraft-and-felis\/\">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":[10,12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kittee-tuesday","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-podcasts-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64360","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=64360"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64368,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64360\/revisions\/64368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}