{"id":195569,"date":"2023-03-17T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=195569"},"modified":"2023-02-16T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:57:11","slug":"uconn-magazine-lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/03\/uconn-magazine-lunacy\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Lunacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moon Club is relatively new at UConn. Students across years, majors, and interests gather on the Great Lawn to celebrate each full moon. It\u2019s known for Instagram memes and accusations of being a cult, but for students it seems to be about community \u2014 and lunacy.<\/p>\n<p>At November\u2019s Blood Moon meeting, on the eve of the 2022 midterm elections, I meet UConn Joker; someone playing the accordion; a person dressed as Jesus; a guy with a decorated skull staff; and students chanting, dancing in circles, and doing cartwheels. \u201cI find a strong sense of kinship with the moon and, you know, it\u2019s just a really, really cool celestial object,\u201d Vladimir Klyukin \u201926 (ACES), known here as \u201cStaff Guy,\u201d told me.<\/p>\n<p>Recent transfer students Amethyst Van Antwerp \u201925 (ED, CLAS), Riley Smith \u201925 (CLAS), Tyler Conroy \u201924 (CLAS), and Hannah Renzoni \u201926 (CAHNR) say they came out of curiosity, but seem like converts. \u201cYou can just be comfortable here, there\u2019s no judgment,\u201d says Smith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2023\/02\/14\/lunacy\/?utm_campaign=magazine_spring_2023&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=uconn_today_readmore\">Read on for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the UConn Moon Club a cult? Maybe? Kind of? Could be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":195574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2235,102,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-195569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 01:54:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195572,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195569\/revisions\/195572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/195574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195569"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=195569"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=195569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}