{"id":1380,"date":"2020-03-14T03:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2020-03-14T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T15:38:49","slug":"its-zaturday-love-a-black-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/its-zaturday-love-a-black-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Zaturday – A Black Cat’s Take on Friday the 13th!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Zaturday, the day we (Ziggy and Zorro) take over Mommy\u2019s Facebook page!<\/p>\n

\"\"Zorro here. Mommy says yesterday was Friday the 13th<\/sup>. I don\u2019t know exactly what that means, because for us, there are just two kinds of days\u2014days in Florida and days in North Carolina. Well, three. There are also the days that we spend in the car getting to Florida or North Carolina.<\/p>\n

But apparently Friday the 13th<\/sup> is supposed to be an unlucky day. Mommy says that\u2019s not true, because she and Daddy got married on Friday the 13th<\/sup> and it didn\u2019t bring them any bad luck. Some people believe black cats are bad luck, too. But Ziggy and I think that\u2019s crazy.<\/p>\n

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Image by Karen Arnold<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like how they say it\u2019s bad luck if a black cat crosses your path. The only time that\u2019s true in our house is when Ziggy runs in front of Mommy and trips her. Then it\u2019s bad luck for both of them\u2014Mommy almost falls and Ziggy gets accidentally kicked across the room. That happened not too long ago. Now Mommy is wearing a big black boot and walking funny. But I\u2019m smarter than Ziggy. I\u2019ve figured out how to stay out of the way of the humans\u2019 feet.<\/p>\n

\"\"But people say nice things about black cats, too. Like that dreaming about one is lucky. (I help Mommy dream about me by sleeping on her pillow.) And that a black cat on your porch brings prosperity. (We can\u2019t help Mommy and Daddy there. They don\u2019t let us outside.) And how about this one: In olde England, it was believed that a sty in the eye would be cured if rubbed with a black cat\u2019s tail. (Ziggy wouldn\u2019t like that. He doesn\u2019t want people messing with his tail.)<\/p>\n

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Image by lemondedis2<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But Ziggy and I think all those superstitions are silly, whether good or bad. Black cats are just like any other cats. We like to play, eat, get scratched under the chin, curl up in a sunny spot and spend lots of time sleeping.<\/p>\n

So what should you do if a black cat crosses your path at night?<\/p>\n

Pick him up and love him!<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s Zaturday, the day we (Ziggy and Zorro) take over Mommy\u2019s Facebook page! Zorro here. Mommy says yesterday was Friday the 13th. I don\u2019t know exactly what that means, because for us, there are just two kinds of days\u2014days in Florida and days in North Carolina. Well, three. There are also the days that we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,54],"tags":[42,84,85],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-zaturday-when-ziggy-and-zorro-take-over","category-special-days","tag-black-cats","tag-friday-the-13th","tag-superstitions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}