{"id":6814,"date":"2015-09-22T00:57:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T07:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2015-09-21T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T21:00:36","slug":"mercury-retrograding-again-lie-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/22\/mercury-retrograding-again-lie-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Retrograding Again &#8211; Lie Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/09\/19\/why-do-smart-people-think-mercury-in-retrograde-is-ruining-their-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\">from the New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Why smart people actually believe Mercury retrograde ruins\u00a0lives<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a class=\"tim-donnelly\" href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/tim-donnelly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Donnelly<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"robert-rorke\" href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/robert-rorke\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Rorke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/observatory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you spilled a whiskey all over your computer or signed a lease for a bedbug-filled apartment, relax! It\u2019s probably not your fault; it\u2019s probably Mercury retrograde.<\/p>\n<p>The astrological phenomenon, which started Thursday and goes until Oct. 9, is the hottest scapegoat in town, the juice cleanse of the cosmos, if you will.<\/p>\n<p>According to astrological hucksters (and the flocks who follow them), the three periods each year when Mercury appears to be moving backward are total pandemonium, a time when the stars are liable to wreak havoc on technical devices, morning commutes and official documents.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad it\u2019s total nonsense. Mercury retrograde isn\u2019t responsible for the G train being late or your iPhone freezing up, any more than that black cat that crossed your path gave you bad luck.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, belief in \u201cMercury retrograde\u201d is getting stronger and stronger. My social media feeds are filled with comments from otherwise logical, educated people who take the phenomenon seriously.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/09\/19\/why-do-smart-people-think-mercury-in-retrograde-is-ruining-their-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the New York Post Why smart people actually believe Mercury retrograde ruins\u00a0lives By\u00a0Tim Donnelly\u00a0and\u00a0Robert Rorke If you spilled a whiskey all over your computer or signed a lease for a bedbug-filled apartment, relax! It\u2019s probably not your fault; it\u2019s probably Mercury retrograde. The astrological phenomenon, which started Thursday and goes until Oct. 9, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}