{"id":105660,"date":"2019-08-12T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/12\/with-prospects-in-the-gutter-who-can-blame-millennials-for-turning-to-the-stars-nell-frizzell\/"},"modified":"2019-08-12T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T14:04:00","slug":"with-prospects-in-the-gutter-who-can-blame-millennials-for-turning-to-the-stars-nell-frizzell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=105660","title":{"rendered":"With prospects in the gutter, who can blame millennials for turning to the stars? | Nell Frizzell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you have little control over your life, astrology \u2013 and the idea that our fates lie with the planets \u2013 can be deeply soothingLike many people with Indian family, or white people with hippy parents, I had my Jyotish chart drawn up when I was still in nappies. I can therefore tell you that I was born into Venus, making me a lustful, infatuated child (albeit one with Meatloaf\u2019s old hairline and a surprisingly large collection of hamsters). I can also tell you that I spent my 20s in Moon, susceptible to illusion, depression and deception (while living in a red-brick back-to-back in Leeds and listening to an unhealthy amount of Leonard Cohen).For many years, horoscopes held a place in my heart that was part secrecy, part shame, part hope and part entertainment Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/12\/millennials-stars-astrology-life\" target=\"_blank\">With prospects in the gutter, who can blame millennials for turning to the stars? | Nell Frizzell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you have little control over your life, astrology \u2013 and the idea that our fates lie with the planets \u2013 can be deeply soothingLike many people with Indian family, or white people with hippy parents, I had my Jyotish chart drawn up when I was still in nappies. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}