{"id":3928516,"date":"2026-10-20T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/terror-of-kings-why-the-1066-appearance-of-halleys-comet-terrified-the-medieval-world\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T17:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:03:54","slug":"terror-of-kings-why-the-1066-appearance-of-halleys-comet-terrified-the-medieval-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/terror-of-kings-why-the-1066-appearance-of-halleys-comet-terrified-the-medieval-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Terror of kings&#8217;: Why the 1066 appearance of Halley&#8217;s Comet terrified the medieval world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A sequence on the Bayeux Tapestry shows King Harold alongside a crowd gazing at the sky, beneath the embroidered caption Isti mirant stella (&#8220;those people marvel at the star&#8221;). Above Harold sits Halley&#8217;s Comet, with ghostlike invasion boats in the border below\u2014a Norman framing of Harold as a doomed usurper whose betrayal invited destruction.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-terror-kings-halley-comet-medieval.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequence on the Bayeux Tapestry shows King Harold alongside a crowd gazing at the sky, beneath the embroidered caption Isti mirant stella (&#8220;those people marvel at the star&#8221;). Above Harold sits Halley&#8217;s Comet, with ghostlike invasion boats in the border below\u2014a Norman framing of Harold as a doomed usurper whose betrayal invited destruction. <\/p>\n<p>Go [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}