{"id":6748,"date":"2019-12-20T11:36:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=6748"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:37:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:37:28","slug":"it-was-the-yuletide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/it-was-the-yuletide\/","title":{"rendered":"It was the Yuletide&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Even Lovecraftian cultists love Christmas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their  hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and  mankind. It was the Yuletide, and I had come at last to the ancient sea  town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when  festival was forbidden; where also they had commanded their sons to keep  festival once every century, that the memory of primal secrets might  not be forgotten. <\/p><cite>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d &#8220;The Festival&#8221; (Originally published in Weird Tales, January 1925) <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Weird_Tales_1925_January.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Weird_Tales_1925_January.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Weird_Tales_1925_January-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even Lovecraftian cultists love Christmas! 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