{"id":76,"date":"2007-01-23T07:54:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T14:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2007-01-23T08:13:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T15:13:43","slug":"im-not-superstitious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/23\/im-not-superstitious\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not superstitious&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I just have OCD.<\/p>\n<p>Cool story in the New York Times today about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/23\/health\/psychology\/23magic.html?ei=5088&#038;en=40bd663a129bebc9&#038;ex=1327208400&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=2&#038;adxnnlx=1169563625-q\/SQg5ABn1BYroBnyKTgUAhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/23\/health\/psychology\/23magic.html?ei=5088&#038;en=40bd663a129bebc9&#038;ex=1327208400&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=2&#038;adxnnlx=1169563625-q\/SQg5ABn1BYroBnyKTgUA\">magical thinking.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all do it, even the skeptics I know, on some level. In fact, I recently began a few rituals that, if I didn&#8217;t know better, could easily evolve into superstition. That is, I just started a few routines that I think might help me get along in my day. If I wasn&#8217;t so conscious of it, I might just think those rituals were somehow causing good things to happen.<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m causing good things to happen. Yay me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking this article is a sign to play Powerball this Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I just have OCD. Cool story in the New York Times today about magical thinking. We all do it, even the skeptics I know, on some level. In fact, I recently began a few rituals that, if I didn&#8217;t know better, could easily evolve into superstition. That is, I just started a few routines that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-1e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}