{"id":38794466,"date":"2007-07-13T23:37:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T23:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2007\/07\/friday-the-13th.html"},"modified":"2013-04-09T00:24:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T00:24:56","slug":"200707friday-the-13th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2007\/07\/13\/200707friday-the-13th-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday the 13th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Media_httpfarm2static_wldwg\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/cmcimport.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/media_httpfarm2static_wldwg-scaled500.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/July_13#Events\">July 13th<\/a> &#8211; Happy Birthday to Me!  One unavoidable consequence of having a birthday on the 13th of any month is, from time to time your birthday falls on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friday_the_13th\">Friday the 13th<\/a>.  For me, this is my sixth such birthday (1973 &#8211; age 8, 1979 &#8211; 14, 1984 &#8211; 19, 1990 &#8211; 25, 2001 &#8211; 36, 2007 &#8211; 42), but I don&#8217;t buy into such superstitious nonsense.  Every birthday, every day, they&#8217;re all as lucky as you make them.  My next Friday the 13th birthday will come in five more years, the year 2012, when I&#8217;ll turn 47.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0%2C21985%2C22065278-2862%2C00.html\">News from a fellow July 13th Birthday<\/a>, facing Friday the 13th Down Under, and still more about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&amp;ned=us&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=friday+the+13th+birthday&amp;btnG=Search\">Friday the 13th birthdays<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 13th &#8211; Happy Birthday to Me! One unavoidable consequence of having a birthday on the 13th of any month is, from time to time your birthday falls on Friday the 13th. For me, this is my sixth such birthday (1973 &#8211; age 8, 1979 &#8211; 14, 1984 &#8211; 19, 1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38794466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMdc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38794466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354376,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38794466\/revisions\/173354376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38794466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38794466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38794466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}