{"id":890,"date":"2005-05-13T01:17:31","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T09:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/05\/13\/freaky-friday-nah\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:23:39","slug":"freaky-friday-nah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/05\/13\/freaky-friday-nah\/","title":{"rendered":"Freaky Friday?  Nah."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news will be chock full of talk about the superstition surrounding this day.  Read about the history of <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanlegends.about.com\/cs\/historical\/a\/friday_the_13th.htm\">Friday the 13th<\/a> and the possible origins for fearing this date.  <\/p>\n<p>As for me, I embrace it.  There are 13 lunar cycles in a year (I cherish the moon).  A baker&#8217;s dozen means one extra goody for me.  Friday is a wonderful day of the week, the start of the weekend.  There is no reason to build up fear where none is justified.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, another reason to enjoy this day?  It marks the fact I&#8217;ve now been married two months.  <\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday the 13th, everyone.  Go break a mirror, walk under a ladder, and cross the path of a black cat.  And don&#8217;t bother throwing salt over your shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news will be chock full of talk about the superstition surrounding this day. Read about the history of Friday the 13th and the possible origins for fearing this date. As for me, I embrace it. There are 13 lunar cycles in a year (I cherish the moon). A baker&#8217;s dozen means one extra goody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12603,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/12603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}