{"id":5090,"date":"2009-05-04T01:58:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T00:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2009-05-04T01:58:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T00:58:47","slug":"professor-peppers-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/05\/04\/professor-peppers-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Pepper&#8217;s Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/0rchid-thief.livejournal.com\/276992.html#cutid1\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5091\" title=\"pepper.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pepper.jpg\" alt=\"pepper.jpg\" width=\"454\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pepper.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pepper-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pepper-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 85vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Professor Pepper&#8217;s Ghosts, c. 1885.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From a page of <a href=\"http:\/\/0rchid-thief.livejournal.com\/276992.html#cutid1\" target=\"_blank\">old theatrical posters<\/a>. A poster from the Egyptian Hall in London, home to regular performances by celebrated conjuror John Nevil Maskelyne, appears in the background of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/pantechnicon\/nyarlathotep-cyaegha.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nyarlathotep<\/a> picture.<\/p>\n<p>For a contemporary explanation of Pepper&#8217;s Ghost, look <a href=\"http:\/\/users.telenet.be\/thomasweynants\/peppers-ghost.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetfabulon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thom<\/a> for the tip!<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/04\/24\/nyarlathotep-the-crawling-chaos\/\" target=\"_self\">Nyarlathotep: the Crawling Chaos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Pepper&#8217;s Ghosts, c. 1885. From a page of old theatrical posters. A poster from the Egyptian Hall in London, home to regular performances by celebrated conjuror John Nevil Maskelyne, appears in the background of my Nyarlathotep picture. For a contemporary explanation of Pepper&#8217;s Ghost, look here. Thanks to Thom for the tip! Previously on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/05\/04\/professor-peppers-ghosts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Professor Pepper&#8217;s Ghosts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[22,46],"tags":[357,356],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-theatre","tag-cyaegha","tag-nyarlathotep"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1k6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}