{"id":20653,"date":"2016-03-21T10:40:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=20653"},"modified":"2016-03-21T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T15:04:45","slug":"horrorscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/03\/horrorscope.html","title":{"rendered":"Horrorscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/01\/memorial_for_mary_au_revoir.html\">Mary Beach<\/a> could draw horoscope charts in great detail. It was a serious hobby of hers. She only did them for people she knew, and if they piqued her interest. I completely forgot she had done mine &#8212; it was so long ago, circa 1967. An old friend reminded me the other day of what Mary said the future held for both of us. I&#8217;ll leave that to the commentary on the card.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ct-horoscope-recto-475-e1457975879689.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20652\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20652\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/03\/horrorscope.html\/ct-horoscope-recto-475\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ct-horoscope-recto-475-e1457975879689.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"369,553\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ct-horoscope-recto (475)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ct-horoscope-recto-475-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ct-horoscope-recto-475-e1457975879689.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ct-horoscope-recto-475-e1457975879689.jpg\" alt title=\"&#039;Horrorscope&#039; by Jan Herman [Cold Turkey Press, 2016] verso image by Gerard Bellaart\" width=\"369\" height=\"553\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20652\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HORRORSCOPE-back-475-e1458225221668.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20734\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/03\/horrorscope.html\/horrorscope-back-475\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HORRORSCOPE-back-475-e1458225221668.png\" data-orig-size=\"370,553\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&amp;#8216;Horrorscope&amp;#8217; by Jan Herman [Cold Turkey Press, 2016] verso\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HORRORSCOPE-back-475-201x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HORRORSCOPE-back-475-e1458225221668.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HORRORSCOPE-back-475-e1458225221668.png\" alt title=\"&#039;Horrorscope&#039; by Jan Herman [Cold Turkey Press, 2016] verso\" width=\"370\" height=\"553\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20734\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Postscript:<\/strong> Coincidentally, the very funny palmistry cover for this week&#8217;s <em>New Yorker<\/em> offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/cover-story-2016-03-28\">lighter touch<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Beach could draw horoscope charts in great detail. It was a serious hobby of hers. She only did them for people she knew, and if they piqued her interest. I completely forgot she had done mine &#8212; it was so long ago, circa 1967. An old friend reminded me the other day of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-literature","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ct-horoscope-recto-475-e1457975879689.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-5n7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20653"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20785,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20653\/revisions\/20785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}