{"id":362,"date":"2011-03-18T12:33:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T19:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/?p=362"},"modified":"2011-03-18T12:33:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T19:33:27","slug":"lovecraft-and-the-occult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/2011\/03\/lovecraft-and-the-occult\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft and the occult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ectomo.com\/2011\/03\/17\/cthulhu-cthursday-lovecraft-and-the-occult-myths-and-speculation\/\">Ectoplasmosis<\/a> has a fun discussion today of the influence of H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s fiction upon the real beliefs of occultists. It&#8217;s inspired by Erik Davis&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygrail.com\/Guest-Articles\/2011\/3\/Calling-Cthulhu\">Calling Cthulhu<\/a> but is fun reading in its own right; not least because it name-checks our own <a href=\"http:\/\/danharms.wordpress.com\/\">Dan Harms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since\u00a0most <em>Call of Cthulhu<\/em> games are all about occultists digging in to esoterica that everyone else thinks is false, looking at how those in the real world treat CoC&#8217;s subjects can be fascinating. Follow the links and enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ectoplasmosis has a fun discussion today of the influence of H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s fiction upon the real beliefs of occultists. It&#8217;s inspired by Erik Davis&#8217; Calling Cthulhu but is fun reading in its own right; not least because it name-checks our&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/2011\/03\/lovecraft-and-the-occult\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[41,15],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mythos","tag-hpl","tag-lovecraft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OyM1-5Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theunspeakableoath.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}