{"id":691,"date":"2010-08-07T12:47:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T09:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2010-08-07T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T09:47:50","slug":"lovecraft-at-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/07\/lovecraft-at-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft at\u00a0sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Boston Globe<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;Star Watch&#8221; astronomy column has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/08\/07\/venus_mars_and_saturn_trio_to_play_twilight_skies\/\">a charming column today<\/a> on Lovecraft&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Around 1893, when the poet and horror-story writer H.P. Lovecraft was a very young child, his mother took him at sunset to a bridge in Newton\u2019s Auburndale district spanning the train tracks where the Massachusetts Turnpike now roars. The golden scene of the town&#8217;s Victorian roofs and tree-covered hills, under fantastic cities of clouds stretching to unknown glowing dreamlands, imprinted the precocious writer with a sense of wonder, expectancy, and mystical longing that, he said, drove his work for the rest of his life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Possibly this sunset was made especially intense by an unknown volcanic eruption&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The erupting volcanoes that were responsible for the small atmospheric disturbances of 1890 and 1893 have never been definitely identified&#8221; &mdash; <em>Journal of Geophysical Research<\/em>, Vol 101.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps his mother remembered the spectacular skies that resulted after the great eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, and jumped at the chance of having her son experience a similar spectacular sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe&#8216;s &#8220;Star Watch&#8221; astronomy column has a charming column today on Lovecraft&#8230; &#8220;Around 1893, when the poet and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/07\/lovecraft-at-sunset\/\">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":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}