{"id":47,"date":"2003-05-02T01:25:31","date_gmt":"2003-05-02T01:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/2003\/05\/luck\/"},"modified":"2003-05-02T01:25:31","modified_gmt":"2003-05-02T01:25:31","slug":"luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/2003\/05\/luck\/","title":{"rendered":"luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.palesky.com\/archive\/life01\/graphics\/030502\/alley.jpg\" width=340 height=260><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.palesky.com\/archive\/life01\/graphics\/030502\/alleyup.jpg\" width=340 height=260><\/p>\n<p>i stood silently in the alleyway between my house and the academy of the dance, staring at the silent black of the night sky &#8211; this was something that i enjoyed doing on random nights for no apparent reason.  i was appreciating the fact that i was able to wear shorts, sandals and a t-shirt and still feel very comfortable.  i didn&#8217;t realize the strength of my temptation;  nestled neatly between my middle and pointer fingers rode a lit cigarette, its parasitic smoke rising into the atmosphere only after it wrestled and wrangled through my unsuspecting alveoli.<\/p>\n<p>my trek through the neighborhood a few hours earlier in the evening produced several encounters with black cats.  one house in particular had accumulated a small congregation of them &#8211; as i passed by quietly humming several stabbing westward tunes i chanced to hear earlier in the day, they all sat there seemingly unconcerned with my presence, silent and observing.  i took notice that since none of them were moving none could be crossing my path, which instantly cancelled out any thoughts that bad luck might fall upon me.  right?<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;d like to think that in most cases bad luck only finds people who are looking for it, but you never know.<\/p>\n<p>*knocks on wood*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i stood silently in the alleyway between my house and the academy of the dance, staring at the silent black of the night sky &#8211; this was something that i enjoyed doing on random nights for no apparent reason. i was appreciating the fact that i was able to wear shorts, sandals and a t-shirt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palesky.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}