{"id":1243,"date":"2012-02-22T16:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T15:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2012-03-06T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T09:05:26","slug":"i-never-knock-on-wood-by-ivan-beljic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/i-never-knock-on-wood-by-ivan-beljic\/","title":{"rendered":"I Never Knock On Wood by Ivan Beljic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3011\/2616723070_a56e50dddc_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"640\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black cat... waiting to cross? by Luis Rodero-Merino<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I never knock on wood. When I do a test at school, or when I am about to see whether I have passed an exam, I do not resort to such things. I think they are old customs which people used not just to bring themselves luck but also to persuade themselves that in some situations wonders could happen. I never knock on wood because I don&#8217;t think that it can change things or be useful to me in the psychological sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never knock on wood. When I do a test at school, or when I am about to see whether I have passed an exam, I do not resort to such things. I think they are old customs which people used not just to bring themselves luck but also to persuade themselves that in some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,96,5,48],"tags":[101,98,100],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lingva-english-cafe","category-lingva-journals","category-student-tools","category-writing","tag-ivan-beljic","tag-opinion-paragraph","tag-superstition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/cafe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}