{"id":9957,"date":"2012-08-31T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=9957"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:45:22","slug":"august-is-a-wicked-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=9957","title":{"rendered":"August is a wicked month…."},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t usually read fiction but I read, years ago, Edna O’Brien’s “August is a Wicked Month.” As fiction goes, it was interesting and given that I read it while waiting in line to see exhibits at Expo ’67, it was time well spent.<\/p>\n

However, this August I think must take the “cup” for being one of the more wicked.  Well, first of all it has 2 full moons – you know how crazy that can be! Now the second moon in a month is a Blue Moon and therefore August 31 will be totally “mad.”<\/p>\n

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\nHere it is – not quite full and not quite blue; but still magnetic!!<\/p>\n

Secondly there were the marquis – those billboards that summarize what is happening in the world, or at least the cinemas at any given moment.  I hope that these are not self fulfilling prophecies.<\/p>\n

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\nI live in one of the few areas that still has not one but two movie theatres with in about 2 or 3 blocks of each other.  This is what the other one said at the beginning of August.<\/p>\n

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\nWhat can I say – we may be surrounded – escape is futile – probably wise to just give in and hope that the winds change or at least the movies – Art imitating life or life creating Art.<\/p>\n

Have  a wonderful Blue Moon!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t usually read fiction but I read, years ago, Edna O’Brien’s “August is a Wicked Month.” As fiction goes, it was interesting and given that I read it while waiting in line to see exhibits at Expo ’67, it was time well spent. However, this August I think must take the “cup” for being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9961,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions\/9961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}