{"id":960,"date":"2010-08-15T02:28:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2010-08-15T02:28:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T23:28:07","slug":"lovecraft-and-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/15\/lovecraft-and-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft and archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007 there was an audio file online, of a talk titled &#8220;Lairs of Cthulhu: Archaeology, Myths and Mysteries in the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft&#8221;.  Sadly the file has vanished into the aether of the net, but I found a detailed set of notes on the talk <a href=\"http:\/\/bookkake.com\/2009\/10\/16\/trip-report-lairs-of-cthulhu\/\">at the Bookkake website<\/a>.  One quote suggests, perhaps, why Lovecraft never considered archaeology as a career &mdash; even if he could have torn himself away from his beloved New England&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Those were the great days of collecting. Anything for which a fancy was taken, from a scarab to an obelisk, was just appropriated and if there was a difference of opinion with a brother excavator one laid for him with a gun.&#8221; &mdash; Howard Carter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/abu-simel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/abu-simel.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"abu-simel\" width=\"480\" height=\"597\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-961\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?w=commons&amp;q=archeology&amp;m=text\">Abu Simbel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007 there was an audio file online, of a talk titled &#8220;Lairs of Cthulhu: Archaeology, Myths and Mysteries in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/15\/lovecraft-and-archaeology\/\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","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=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}