{"id":97,"date":"2006-09-15T09:36:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T14:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/97-ladders-and-bad-luck"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:13:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:13:13","slug":"ladders-and-bad-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/97-ladders-and-bad-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladders and Bad Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ladder\" alt=\"Ladder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/ladder.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Many people are superstitious about walking under a ladder. Here are a few trivia facts about the superstition.<\/p>\n<p>* For centuries, walking under a ladder has been believed to bring bad luck. Many people today still believe this superstition.<\/p>\n<p>* If you walk under a ladder that is leaning against a wall, you are breaking the symbol of life, which is a triangle.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n* If you have no choice but to walk under a ladder, spit over your left shoulder, cross your fingers and don&#8217;t speak until you&#8217;ve seen a four-legged animal. This protects you from both evil and danger.<\/p>\n<p>* A ladder is the way spirits ascend to heaven. If you walk under it, you will disturb them and they will bring you bad luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are superstitious about walking under a ladder. Here are a few trivia facts about the superstition. * For centuries, walking under a ladder has been believed to bring bad luck. Many people today still believe this superstition. * If you walk under a ladder that is leaning against a wall, you are breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}