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I\u2019m not superstitious. I walk under ladders, have two black cats and got married on June 13th<\/sup>. And yes, it was a Friday.<\/p>\n In our house, Friday the 13th<\/sup> is a day to celebrate. And when that Friday the 13th<\/sup> falls during the month of June, it\u2019s doubly special. The last time that happened was 2014. It won\u2019t happen again until 2025.\u00a0Some people told us we were crazy planning a wedding for Friday the 13th<\/sup>. But everything went off without a hitch. Well, almost.<\/p>\n At the time, my husband-to-be was in the Florida National Guard. Right before we were going to order his ring, riots broke out in the Liberty City part of Miami, and his unit was activated. By the time he was able to come back home, we were running out of time. We got the ring ordered, but it didn\u2019t arrive until the Monday after our wedding. So we ended up borrowing one. In all of our wedding pictures, my husband is wearing my ex-boyfriend\u2019s ring!<\/p>\n Sometime back, I booked a transatlantic cruise for our anniversary. The last ship we were on, the top deck was deck 13. It was where they had putt-putt golf, basketball courts, the rock climbing wall and several other activities. In checking out the floor plan of the ship we\u2019ll be going on this time, it goes from deck 12 to deck 14. There is no deck 13.<\/p>\n The fear of the number 13 is a real thing\u2014it\u2019s called triskaidekaphobia. A lot of skyscrapers have no 13th<\/sup> floor, because even if the owner of the building doesn\u2019t have the phobia, they choose to avoid problems with superstitious tenants. In China, in addition to floor 13, they\u2019ll sometimes also skip floors 4 and 14, because of the similarity between the pronunciation of the words \u201cfour\u201d and \u201cdeath\u201d in Chinese.<\/p>\n At least in America, the superstitious only have one number to avoid. Two if you count 666. But that would be a topic for a whole different post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m not superstitious. I walk under ladders, have two black cats and got married on June 13th. And yes, it was a Friday. In our house, Friday the 13th is a day to celebrate. And when that Friday the 13th falls during the month of June, it\u2019s doubly special. The last time that happened was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[84,85],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-days","tag-friday-the-13th","tag-superstitions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","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=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"superstition\"](\"https:\/\/caroljpost.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/number-2934045_1920-300x298.png\")