This is, like, really really horrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, it’s about wolves. Cold, hungry, desperate, nasty wolves that\nprowl outside your home in the winter night. Wolves howl for lots of reasons;\nmost of the year they howl quickly, and only back and forth within their own\npack. But in wintertime, with the approach of breeding season, their howling\ngets longer and louder as they reach out to potential mates in other packs, and\nwarn enemy packs to keep to themselves. Both Europeans and Native Americans\nnoticed this pattern, and both cultures referred to the full moon that occurs\nduring this time as the wolf moon. Yikes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second, it’s about blood. I’m not kidding, blood! We’ll, actually\nit’s more metaphorical blood, as in the bloody tinge that the moon takes on\nduring a full lunar eclipse, which will happen this weekend. Sunday night at\nabout 9:30 in the United States, part of the earth’s shadow will begin to cover\nthe moon. By 10:30 it should be a fairly noticeable eclipse. And around 11:30 –\njust before midnight!- there will be a total eclipse and the moon will turn –\ngulp! – as red as blood!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Third, it’s not just bad, it’s super-bad. That’s because, as the\nmoon circles the earth – or to be more exact, “ovals” the earth – the\npoint at which it is farthest from earth is called the “apogee” and\nthe closest point is called the “perigee.” When a full moon occurs at\nthe moon’s perigee, it is noticeably larger than a normal full moon.\nFurthermore, when the sun, earth, and moon are all aligned, as they are during\na full moon, that moment is called a “syzygy.” Thus, when a full moon\nhappens when the moon is closest to the earth, the technical term for such an\nevent is a “perigee-syzygy.” And, since using such a term would be\nabsolutely ridiculous, astrologists have stepped in and rebranded it: super\nmoon!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lord help us, on January 20, it will all come together. This\nmind-blowing midwinter moon madness has it all. Wolves will howl, blood will\nflow, heavenly bodies will align and the moon just might crash into the world.\nYes, friends, we’re talking a Super Blood Wolf Moon!!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is rare, scary, creepy stuff. It’s got lots of adjectives,\ncapital letters and exclamation points. Nothing in the world could make it\nworse. Nothing. At all. Except for, maybe, perhaps, a certain\nmarketing-executive-cum-Friday-morning-blogger having his birthday fall ON THAT\nEXACT DATE! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ah-woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(I hope you all survive it. The next Super Blood Wolf Moon is 18\nyears in the future. At which time I will be, um, 39 years old.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is, like, really really horrible. First, it’s about wolves. Cold, hungry, desperate, nasty wolves that prowl outside your home in the winter night. Wolves howl for lots of reasons; most of the year they howl quickly, and only back and forth within their own pack. But in wintertime, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,1184,1717],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blood","tag-sun","tag-wolf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Super-Blood-Wolf-Moon-1.jpg?fit=637%2C475&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}