{"id":24541,"date":"2010-04-21T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T20:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=24541"},"modified":"2010-04-21T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T20:30:03","slug":"from-the-madame-arcati-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/from-the-madame-arcati-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Madame Arcati interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>M.A. &#8212; Don&#8217;t you think Sun sign astrology  (the horoscopes in papers and magazines) gives stargazers a bad name?  It&#8217;s just showbiz, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>E.F. &#8212; If it was just showbiz, it would be easier, and it would require little  in the way of ethics, or study, or talent. Part of the problem is  editors, who strain to tell good astrology writing from bad, or who want  horoscope writers to play down to their audience and give fashion  advice. The very best newspaper astrologers also happen to be the best  trained: rigorously, and gifted with a certain something extra which  cannot be acquired. Writing horoscopes requires precision of both  language and interpretation. Intuition counts for a lot, and vitally, so  does imagination. Then you need to write as fast and prolifically as a  political correspondent at the peak of a campaign, always keeping the  sense of personal contact. Heck it\u2019s so easy, anybody can do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.A. &#8212; Don&#8217;t you think Sun sign astrology (the horoscopes in papers and magazines) gives stargazers a bad name? It&#8217;s just showbiz, right? E.F. &#8212; If it was just showbiz, it would be easier, and it would require little in the way of ethics, or study, or talent. Part of the problem is editors, who &#8230; <a title=\"From the Madame Arcati interview\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/from-the-madame-arcati-interview\/\" aria-label=\"More on From the Madame Arcati interview\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}