{"id":939,"date":"2015-10-30T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=939"},"modified":"2015-10-30T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:20:47","slug":"british-superstitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/british-superstitions\/","title":{"rendered":"British Superstitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/29\/Gymnorhina_tibicen,_early_drawing.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"145\" \/>After our post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/strange-german-superstitions\/\">German superstitions<\/a>\u00a0it&#8217;s time to have a look at some typical British cultural beliefs. Click on the link to the article below. When you have read it,\u00a0you will no longer be surprised to\u00a0see an Englishman panicking when he sees a single magpie <em>(Elster),<\/em>\u00a0and starts wildly looking for more magpies, before giving up and reciting a poem while\u00a0saluting the single bird.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationuk.org\/global\/articles\/uk-superstitions\/\">UK superstitions | Education UK (Global)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our post on German superstitions\u00a0it&#8217;s time to have a look at some typical British cultural beliefs. Click on the link to the article below. When you have read it,\u00a0you will no longer be surprised to\u00a0see an Englishman panicking when he sees a single magpie (Elster),\u00a0and starts wildly looking for more magpies, before giving up [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}