{"id":1479,"date":"2012-10-18T19:01:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T02:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2012-10-18T19:11:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T02:11:25","slug":"what-if-they-had-an-election-and-mercury-went-into-retrograde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/?p=1479","title":{"rendered":"What if they had an election and Mercury went into retrograde?!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mercurycloseupx500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1480\" title=\"Mercurycloseupx500\" src=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mercurycloseupx500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mercurycloseupx500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mercurycloseupx500-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here at the Wallyware headquarters, we are always searching for new niche markets to cater to.\u00a0 Over the past few years, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.westword.com\/showandtell\/2012\/10\/draftover_the_weekend_ghost_hu.php\" target=\"_blank\">Robin<\/a> (my oldest daughter) has helped me appreciate the wild and wacky world of astrology and tarot cards.\u00a0 I still don&#8217;t believe in this stuff, but I fit the profile of a Libra perfectly. \u00a0 So I guess half of me is buying into it while the other half is viewing it with a skeptical eye.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/galadarling.com\/article\/how-to-survive-mercury-retrograde\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury in retrograde phenomena<\/a> is a really fascinating concept.\u00a0 What&#8217;s really happening is that the planet Mercury is moving backwards in the night sky.\u00a0 But what astrologers say is happening is all kinds of mayhem: things break, people have trouble communicating, and everything has a tendency to get all wonky.\u00a0 I love the idea of a <em>&#8220;the shit&#8217;s gonna hit the fan&#8221;<\/em> event that can be predicted just like clockwork.\u00a0 So when is the next time Mercury goes into retrograde?\u00a0 Tuesday, November 6th: the day of the election.\u00a0 YIKES!\u00a0 You heard it here first. Tell everyone you know that they only have 18 days to prepare for the worst <em>and<\/em> they can purchase one of these new mugs at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goestores.com\/storename\/thomassedwards\/ViewDept-267479.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">online store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM1x500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1481\" title=\"MercuryM1x500\" src=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM1x500-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM1x500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM1x500-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM1x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM2x500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1482\" title=\"MercuryM2x500\" src=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM2x500-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM2x500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM2x500-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM2x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM3x500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1483\" title=\"MercuryM3x500\" src=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM3x500-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM3x500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM3x500-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wallypots.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MercuryM3x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at the Wallyware headquarters, we are always searching for new niche markets to cater to.\u00a0 Over the past few years, Robin (my oldest daughter) has helped me appreciate the wild and wacky world of astrology and tarot cards.\u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/?p=1479\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[331,329,330],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-astrology-coffee-mug","tag-funny-astrology-jokes","tag-mercury-in-retrograde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}