{"id":46,"date":"2010-01-24T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2010-01-24T01:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T01:33:00","slug":"lovecraft-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/24\/lovecraft-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft on Youtube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7jQtkGJMtH0]<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s apparently a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/09a\/om135.htm\">hoax<\/a>.  But a good hoax:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There, in what appeared to be a 30s-era newsreel, was H.P. Lovecraft, uncomfortable and uneasy, gaunt and pasty, speaking in an educated 19th century New England accent, displaying socially awkward mannerisms, and sitting at a desk talking about his work. I&#8217;d read a lot about Lovecraft, and had never heard any mention of him ever having been filmed, but the illusion was so well done, that it had me thinking, just for a second, that somebody had dug up some long-lost footage of Lovecraft. It is part of this attention to detail, for example <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">the use of material drawn directly from Lovecraft&#8217;s voluminous body of letters in the newsreel monologue<\/span> that really places this portion of the film a cut above.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sure sounded like him.  That&#8217;s because the words were by him.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7jQtkGJMtH0] Yes, it&#8217;s apparently a hoax. But a good hoax: There, in what appeared to be a 30s-era newsreel, was H.P. Lovecraft, uncomfortable and uneasy, gaunt and pasty, speaking in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-dread-plush-cthulhu","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}