{"id":4999,"date":"2011-11-07T22:39:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T05:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2011-11-28T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T17:22:54","slug":"wither-the-lovefest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/07\/wither-the-lovefest\/","title":{"rendered":"Wither the Lovefest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon for me to abandon a project due to lack of interest. I am pretty sure the H. P. Lovefest is the first project I have ever abandoned due to abundance of interest, though.<\/p>\n<p>Except for the part about abandonment.  The original plan was for me to write an essay about Lovecraft for The Morning News, with a publication date of just before Halloween. While conducting research discovered that the 75th anniversary of the author&#8217;s death is next March, however, and decided to target the piece for then instead.<\/p>\n<p>But then why stop posting here, you might ask?  Well, the truth is that all my free time has, of late, been devoted to the various Lovecraftian into which I submerged myself.  To wit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have been reading, for the first time, the Cthulhu Mythos stories written by those in the Lovecraft Circle; specifically, I have been working my way through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/034542204X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=defectiveyeti-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=034542204X\">this book<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0441016685\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=defectiveyeti-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=0441016685\">The Atrocity Archives<\/a> on deck.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>My evenings have been spent engrossed in the video game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0007ZD794\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=defectiveyeti-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=B0007ZD794\">Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth<\/a>, which I will review soon.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>This year, for the first time, I served as the GM for the Halloween Call of Cthulhu game I participate in annually, and that took rather more preparation than I had expected. Keepin&#8217; is hard!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the H. P. Lovecraft will continue over the next few months, albeit on a more lackadaisical schedule than I had originally intended. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<div align='center'><img src='\/images\/eldersign.jpg'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon for me to abandon a project due to lack of interest. I am pretty sure the H. P. Lovefest is the first project I have ever abandoned due to abundance of interest, though. Except for the part about abandonment. The original plan was for me to write an essay about Lovecraft for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hpl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5037,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}