{"id":142,"date":"2011-10-12T13:45:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2013-12-13T14:14:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:14:46","slug":"the-thing-and-lovecraft-guest-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"The Thing and Lovecraft &#8212; Guest Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh yes. I am not alone in my recent obsession.\u00a0 Adam Nowak has allowed me to guest post on <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaffeinedreams.blogspot.com\/\">Caffeine Dreams<\/a> as a part of his <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaffeinedreams.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/31%20Days%20of%20Lovecraft\">month of Lovecraft<\/a>.\u00a0 Check out the full post <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaffeinedreams.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/wednseday-october-12th-2011-guest.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A quick sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0What better place than Antarctica for a story about mankind\u2019s isolation? As our understanding of the universe grows, the perceived importance of our presence in it diminishes. We\u2019re a blip. An oddity. Closer in intellectual advancement to a crow breaking a shell with a rock than to the horrible powers which exist beyond the borders of our knowledge. Indeed, the aliens themselves are so foreign-looking that we can barely understand what they are, be they Lovecraft\u2019s anemone cucumbers or Carpenter\u2019s tentacle-flailing blood beings. And they\u2019re here, hidden in the dark places of the world we thought was ours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say again, check it in its entirety <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaffeinedreams.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/wednseday-october-12th-2011-guest.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh yes. I am not alone in my recent obsession.\u00a0 Adam Nowak has allowed me to guest post on Caffeine Dreams as a part of his month of Lovecraft.\u00a0 Check out the full post here. A quick sample: \u00a0What better place than Antarctica for a story about mankind\u2019s isolation? As our understanding of the universe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-thing-2","category-uncategorized","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}