{"id":3264,"date":"2012-10-12T09:49:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T14:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2012-10-13T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T20:11:10","slug":"the-hobbesian-horoscope-101212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3264","title":{"rendered":"The Hobbesian Horoscope, 10\/12\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy brisk October Friday!\u00a0 It&#8217;s another chance to catch up with your own personal astrological future. Your upcoming week will be poor, nasty, brutish, and short &#8211; but don&#8217;t let it get you down!\u00a0 Read on!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Aries\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ari.gif\" alt=\"Aries\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><em>Aries (The Ram):\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0The weather will get colder, but your wardrobe will not keep up.\u00a0 By Wednesday, that miniskirt will seem like a really bad idea.\u00a0 Particularly since it doesn&#8217;t quite hide your jockstrap.\u00a0 Your high-risk disease this week:\u00a0 Blastocystis Hominis.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Taurus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tau.gif\" alt=\"Taurus\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><em>Taurus (The Bull):\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Do you remember the scene in the horror movie when the soon-to-be-victim tries to scream, but they&#8217;re too scared and nothing comes out and they can&#8217;t move because they&#8217;re paralyzed with fear?\u00a0 Yes?\u00a0 You&#8217;re really not going to enjoy Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gemini \" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/gem.gif\" alt=\"Gemini \" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><em>Gemini (The<\/em> <em>Twins<\/em>):\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Looks like you picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.\u00a0\u00a0 Monday you&#8217;ll notice that\u00a0your bar is dangerously empty, but you won&#8217;t fill it.\u00a0 Your high-risk disease this week:\u00a0 Sixth Disease.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cancer \" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/can.gif\" alt=\"Cancer \" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><em>Cancer (The Crab):\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0You will try to learn a new software application this week, in one week flat.\u00a0 You will fail, of course, but hey &#8211; good on you for trying.\u00a0 It&#8217;s OK; nobody learns everything about SAP in a week except Chuck Norris.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Leo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/leo.gif\" alt=\"Leo\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><em>Leo (The Lion):<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This is a good last week to tune up the bike and light out for the open road &#8211; it&#8217;s getting cold out there.\u00a0 You won&#8217;t be cold, thought &#8211; your high-risk disease this week is\u00a0Brazilian Hemorrhagic Fever.\u00a0 (So named because someone once asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s her temperature?&#8221; and the answer was, &#8220;Oh man, she&#8217;s a brazilian degrees!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Virgo \" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/vir.gif\" alt=\"Virgo \" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><em>Virgo (The Virgin):\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Have you ever been to Red Hot and Blue after hours, when they close the doors and lock the windows so no one can see that it&#8217;s not really pigs they&#8217;re cooking?\u00a0 You&#8217;re going to regret this on Tuesday, but not as much as you&#8217;ll regret the &#8220;Big Rib Special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Libra\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/lib.gif\" alt=\"Libra\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><em>Libra (The Scale):<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This week, you will find yourself faced with the words &#8220;the Smurfs are all geared toward a reading skill&#8221;\u00a0and you will\u00a0suddenly understand, with a terribly knowing, the meaning\u00a0of &#8220;learning through play.&#8221;\u00a0 You will never un-learn this, just like\u00a0your Virgo friend with the\u00a0rib platter.\u00a0 Your high-risk disease this week:\u00a0 Calicivirus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Scorpio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sco.gif\" alt=\"Scorpio\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><em>Scorpio (The Scorpion):<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What are you doing reading this?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t you have work to do?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sagittarius \" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sag.gif\" alt=\"Sagittarius \" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><em>Sagittarius (The Archer):<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Life goes on, and you&#8217;re coming along for the ride.\u00a0 It gets better, mostly, and for moderate values of &#8220;better,&#8221; but still.\u00a0 Your high-risk disease this week:\u00a0 Cat-Scratch Disease.\u00a0 No, it&#8217;s not just a song.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Capricorn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cap.gif\" alt=\"Capricorn\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><em>Capricorn (The Sea-Goat):<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0You would like\u00a0a budgetary quote that you can run past your client.\u00a0 Your vendor would like a blank check and a promise of more to come.\u00a0 Your kid would like a tricycle and a teddy bear, and people in hell want ice water.\u00a0 Good luck with that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Aquarius\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/aqu.gif\" alt=\"Aquarius\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><em>Aquarius (The Water Bearer):<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This is the week you finally realize you&#8217;ve been\u00a0manipulated all your life.\u00a0 Monday, you will confront your puppet master, only to find it&#8217;s some\u00a0guy named Mac who had no idea you were actually responding to his input &#8211; he\u00a0didn&#8217;t know you were real.\u00a0 Kill him, then confront your guilt. \u00a0Your high-risk disease this week:\u00a0 Buruli Ulcer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pisces\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pis.gif\" alt=\"Pisces\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><em>Pisces (The Fish):<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 You will pay good money to hear a speaker from your own damn company talk about how they&#8217;re\u00a0going to find new ways to screw you, and then you&#8217;ll thank them for the privilege.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Ugly Horoscope. Catch up with your own personal astroillogical future for the weekend and next week &#8211; your daily dose of destiny under your sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3294,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}