{"id":2672,"date":"2007-08-20T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2007-08-20T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T00:43:00","slug":"2672","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">An interesting observation in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/programs\/2007\/08\/20\/#monday\">Writer&#8217;s Almanac<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was on this day in 1977 that Voyager 2 was launched by NASA to explore the planets of our solar system&#8230;.It&#8217;s the birthday of a man who would have shuddered at the thought of the Voyager missions into space: H.P. [Howard Phillips] Lovecraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keillor also notes that Lovecraft&#8217;s &#8220;work had a big influence on Stephen King,&#8221; but I think that&#8217;s probably an over-simplification, if not maybe even misleading. It&#8217;s unclear how much a real debt King&#8217;s work owes to Lovecraft, and, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/2002\/06\/theres-moderately-interesting.html\">as<br \/>I&#8217;ve noted here before<\/a>, King will be the first to point out some of the real weaknesses in Lovecraft&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>But, still, in honor of the man: <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/009290.html\">The Dream-Quest of Pooh Corner<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting observation in today&#8217;s Writer&#8217;s Almanac: It was on this day in 1977 that Voyager 2 was launched by NASA to explore the planets of our solar system&#8230;.It&#8217;s the birthday of a man who would have shuddered at the thought of the Voyager missions into space: H.P. [Howard Phillips] Lovecraft. Keillor also notes that &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2672\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}