{"id":9287,"date":"2013-09-19T08:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T05:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=9287"},"modified":"2013-09-19T08:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T05:13:47","slug":"parade-of-ancients-and-horribles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/09\/19\/parade-of-ancients-and-horribles\/","title":{"rendered":"Parade of Ancients and Horribles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/09\/18\/the-whately-burials\/\">the Junior Burials at Brown<\/a> I&#8217;ve found another Rhode Island tradition of weird parading.  Lovecraft and George Kirk took a ten-mile trolley ride from Providence to Chepachet on 4th July 1926 to see the first of the modern &#8216;Parade of Ancients and Horribles&#8217;.  This parade was the U.S. Sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary revival of an annual <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parades_of_horribles\">satirical Parade of Ancients and Horribles<\/a>, an event which had first been recorded in New England in 1851.  The visit was mentioned in Kirk&#8217;s diary&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This essay has been replaced by the essay in my new book of revised, expanded, and footnoted versions of my recent Tentaclii essays, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/10\/02\/lovecraft-in-historical-context-fifth-collection-shipping-now\/\">Lovecraft in Historical Context: fifth collection<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/dave-haden\/lovecraft-in-historical-context-fifth-collection\/paperback\/product-21832595.html\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/cover_front_600px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/cover_front_600px.jpg\" alt=\"cover_front_600px\" width=\"393\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13397\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the Junior Burials at Brown I&#8217;ve found another Rhode Island tradition of weird parading. Lovecraft &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/09\/19\/parade-of-ancients-and-horribles\/\">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-9287","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\/9287","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=9287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}