{"id":70297,"date":"2020-10-30T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=70297"},"modified":"2021-01-25T13:37:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T18:37:01","slug":"supernatural-scholar-dishes-on-2020s-lunar-timely-scary-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/supernatural-scholar-dishes-on-2020s-lunar-timely-scary-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Supernatural Scholar Dishes on 2020\u2019s Lunar, Timely, Scary Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As author of \u201cSupernatural, Humanity, and the Soul: On the Highway to Hell and Back,\u201d Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/profile\/regina-hansen\/\">Regina Hansen<\/a> is an expert on all matters of Halloween, from its pagan origins through its modern celebration as a community candy swap. Dr. Hansen, faculty coordinator of the Metropolitan College online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/degrees-certificates\/undergraduate-degree-completion-program-online\/\">Undergraduate Degree Completion Program (UDCP)<\/a> and a master lecturer of rhetoric at BU\u2019s College of General Studies, was asked this week by <a href=\"https:\/\/whdh.com\/news\/halloween-full-moon-time-change-and-just-before-the-election-how-do-we-cope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN (via 7 News Boston)<\/a> about the 2020 alignment of Halloween, a full moon, daylight savings time, and the pending presidential election. It\u2019s a spooky concoction, in her estimation. \u201cThe metaphysical energy of this moment is huge,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<p>The latest <em>BU Today<\/em> features a conversation with Dr. Hansen delving into the holiday\u2019s history as an artifact of co-mingling ideologies, detailing how it became the festivity we enjoy today. \u201cIn America, the real explosion of Halloween happened when the Irish immigrants came and brought their practice with them. It looked like a really fun thing to do. So other people wanted to do it,\u201d she told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2019\/how-did-halloween-get-started\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>BU Today<\/em><\/a>, in last year\u2019s interview.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whdh.com\/news\/halloween-full-moon-time-change-and-just-before-the-election-how-do-we-cope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read \u201cHalloween, full moon, time change and just before the election. How do we cope?\u201d at 7 News Boston.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As author of \u201cSupernatural, Humanity, and the Soul: On the Highway to Hell and Back,\u201d Dr. Regina Hansen is an expert on all matters of Halloween, from its pagan origins through its modern celebration as a community candy swap. Dr. Hansen, faculty coordinator of the Metropolitan College online Undergraduate Degree Completion Program (UDCP) and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16254,"featured_media":70300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,37,76,184,180],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70298,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70297\/revisions\/70298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}