{"id":3216,"date":"2011-09-21T21:23:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T01:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2011-09-22T00:08:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T04:08:36","slug":"very-superstitious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/21\/very-superstitious\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Superstitious-UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bird shat on my head at lunch today. Twice. One bird, twice, or two birds, once each. Either way, I got shat on two times.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on our walk just now, Redford came this close to getting <em>bitten by a snake<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After that, an owl started out of a tree ten feet from us and flew away.<\/p>\n<p>A little while later, Violet nearly tore my arm off because a cat streaked across our path. It was dark so I couldn&#8217;t see it very well, but I&#8217;m 1,000% it was a black cat.<\/p>\n<p>If anybody needs me, I&#8217;ll be under my bed.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED: At 11:00pm, my car&#8217;s panic alarm started going off intermittently and wouldn&#8217;t stop when I pressed the button on the fob. Until it <em>did<\/em>, and then after a random interval (three seconds to four minutes), it would start again. I finally got in and started the car. That made it stop.\u00a0Except that it would start again when I turned the engine off. I finally drove down to the pawn shop on the corner&#8212;I figured my neighbors might be a little perturbed by it&#8212;and called Durham PD. Four officers showed up, witnessed the poltergeist, and removed the horn fuse.\u00a0If it starts up again, I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;ll do.<\/p>\n<p>(I came home, not having locked the dogs up in the spare bedroom like I usually do because I went running out of here so fast. Violet had clearly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=515\">collected a bunch of my shoes<\/a> and cuddled with them at different spots around the house. I think she was nervous. Me too, mama.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bird shat on my head at lunch today. Twice. One bird, twice, or two birds, once each. Either way, I got shat on two times. Then, on our walk just now, Redford came this close to getting bitten by a snake. After that, an owl started out of a tree ten feet from us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/21\/very-superstitious\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Very Superstitious-UPDATED<\/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":[4,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animules","category-call-me-crazy","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}