{"id":23400,"date":"2016-10-30T22:05:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T05:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23400"},"modified":"2016-10-30T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T05:05:40","slug":"very-superstitious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/very-superstitious\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Superstitious!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pumway.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stevie Wonders sings that &#8220;Superstition Ain&#8217;t the Way&#8221; but don&#8217;t tell that to millions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/holidays\/halloween-superstitions.html\">Halloween celebrants<\/a> in California. If you&#8217;ve carved a pumpkin and lit it, you have observed\u00a0the tradition of guiding lost spirits, which originated with\u00a0Irish settlers in the U.S. They introduced a homeland fable\u00a0of\u00a0a drunken farmer, Stingy Jack, who tricked the Devil. Rejected from both heaven and hell, the Devil tossed him an ember from hell, which Jack used to create his own turnip-lantern to find his way through darkness. \u00a0Among the superstitions people observe regularly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winchester Mystery House hosts Friday the 13th Flashlight Tours<\/li>\n<li>Make a wish and blow out the candles on your birthday cake<\/li>\n<li>Knock on wood<\/li>\n<li>Cross your fingers for good luck<\/li>\n<li>Wear black to funeral<\/li>\n<li>Break turkey wishbone at Thanksgiving<\/li>\n<li>Pick up a penny for good luck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevie Wonders sings that &#8220;Superstition Ain&#8217;t the Way&#8221; but don&#8217;t tell that to millions of Halloween celebrants in California. If you&#8217;ve carved a pumpkin and lit it, you have observed\u00a0the tradition of guiding lost spirits, which originated with\u00a0Irish settlers in the U.S. They introduced a homeland fable\u00a0of\u00a0a drunken farmer, Stingy Jack, who tricked the Devil. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}