{"id":28212,"date":"2026-02-13T19:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28212"},"modified":"2026-02-13T19:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:45:54","slug":"friday-the-13th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28212","title":{"rendered":"Friday the 13th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are people unlucky today because it is Friday the 13th? Or is it just a case of confirmation bias?<\/p>\n<p>If something bad happens to you on a Tuesday the 27th, you probably don&#8217;t think much of it. But when it happens on this day of the year, you remember.<\/p>\n<p>So this is probably just one of those self-fulfilling myths. On the other hand, it makes for some very entertaining scary movies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are people unlucky today because it is Friday the 13th? Or is it just a case of confirmation bias? If something bad happens to you on a Tuesday the 27th, you probably don&#8217;t think much of it. But when it happens on this day of the year, you remember. So this is probably just one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday the 13th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28213,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28212\/revisions\/28213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}