{"id":3990,"date":"2012-06-27T23:31:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T06:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2012-06-27T23:31:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T06:31:18","slug":"bad-luck-days-are-not-really-bad-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3990","title":{"rendered":"Bad luck days are not really bad luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In college, I used to think Fridays were the worst.  I had the worst days.<\/p>\n<p>I would wake up\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsomething horrible would happen.  Maybe I burn my food and it would be disgusting.  Or that I miss the bus by a minute and I can see it pulling away.<\/p>\n<p>Then it would collapse into having a fight with a friend.  A spat with a lover.  Or my manager yelling at me.<\/p>\n<p>I would lose something.  Over pay something.  Get shafted at a store.  Receive a bad grade.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the Friday, I would declare to myself\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<i>always bad luck, every Friday is the 13th<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet they are just events.  They are just <i>purely<\/i> events.  It is simply that I lost my keys and that&#8217;s ok.  It&#8217;s unrelated to the fact this evening&#8217;s unexpected argument.  It&#8217;s not the reason that I dropped a precious plate at my friend&#8217;s house.  No causation or correlation.<\/p>\n<p>So then, I will not say <i>I had a bad day.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In college, I used to think Fridays were the worst. I had the worst days. I would wake up\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsomething horrible would happen. Maybe I burn my food and it would be disgusting. Or that I miss the bus by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3991,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}