{"id":12101,"date":"2010-03-16T00:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T07:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=12101"},"modified":"2010-03-16T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:16:32","slug":"hpls-the-silver-key-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/hpls-the-silver-key-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"HPL&#8217;s &#8220;The Silver Key&#8221; on Youtube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/the-silver-key.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12118\" title=\"the silver key\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/the-silver-key.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/the-silver-key.jpg 300w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/the-silver-key-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/the-silver-key-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lovecraft was no fan of the cinema, and it could be argued that his disdain for moving pictures has been returned by a\u00a0seemingly endless torrent of\u00a0laughable and unfaithful film adaptations. Still, HPL was always a champion of the amateur <em>artiste<\/em>.\u00a0Keeping that fact in mind, perhaps it is not too far-fetched to think that\u00a0&#8220;Uncle Theobald&#8221; (as REH called him)\u00a0would approve of the ten-minute film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4V59ik48Xs4\">recently posted to Youtube<\/a>\u00a0which adapts his tale, &#8220;The Silver Key.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One\u00a0would have to look hard for a more fitting story to commemorate the anniversary of the\u00a0passage from this mortal coil\u00a0by the Man from Providence.\u00a0Lovecraft\u00a0always seemed fond of the tale, and Robert E. Howard\u00a0expressed his deep admiration for it\u00a0at least once. While an &#8220;update&#8221; in temporal terms, the short film seems to capture a bit of the atmosphere that the Great Old One strove for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovecraft was no fan of the cinema, and it could be argued that his disdain for moving pictures has been returned by a\u00a0seemingly endless torrent of\u00a0laughable and unfaithful film adaptations. Still, HPL was always a champion of the amateur artiste.\u00a0Keeping that fact in mind, perhaps it is not too far-fetched to think that\u00a0&#8220;Uncle Theobald&#8221; (as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,46,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy-films","category-robert-e-howard","category-hpl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12103,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101\/revisions\/12103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}