{"id":1234,"date":"2006-09-02T10:02:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T13:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2006-09-02T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T13:02:25","slug":"pluto-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1234","title":{"rendered":"Pluto Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">D<\/span>ear <a id=\"p1233\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1233\" title=\"First they take Pluto. Then they take Manhattan\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/first_they_take.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"First they take Pluto. Then they take Manhattan\" \/><\/a>neighbourhood astrologer:\n<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the International Astronomer Union (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iau.org\/\">website<\/a>) decided to downgrade Pluto&#8217;s planetary status to &#8216;dwarf planet&#8217; after a lengthy voting process (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iau2006.org\/mirror\/www.iau.org\/iau0603\/index.html\">results<\/a>). You may have heard about this via the regular channels, since it has caused quite the stir around the world. Personally, I felt quite distressed about the future of the accuracy of my personal horoscopes. After all, since Pluto was outed, I have had many misfortunes hurled my way because of less exact horoscopes. However, I read that only western astrology was affected by all of this. Indian astrologers namely claim the following (and I quote from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keralaonline.com\/newspages\/display.php?newsid=2227\">article<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8220;Western astrology uses Pluto as a planet while Pluto was always out of Indian astrology and we do not use it in our calculations. This is the practice from the days of Aryabhatta and Varahamihira&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>I request that you fix what is broken and that you use the Indian system from now on. This will hopefully correct the mispleasures I have suffered from reading your horoscopes.\n<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for considering and may the planets (minus Pluto) bear the weight of your numerical zodiacal calculations.\n<\/p>\n<p>Arthur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear neighbourhood astrologer: Recently, the International Astronomer Union (website) decided to downgrade Pluto&#8217;s planetary status to &#8216;dwarf planet&#8217; after a lengthy voting process (results). You may have heard about this via the regular channels, since it has caused quite the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1234\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}