{"id":49,"date":"2006-05-01T18:45:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T17:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/white-rabbits\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:57:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:57:40","slug":"white-rabbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"White rabbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saying &#8220;white rabbits&#8221; on the first day of each month apparently brings you luck, at least that&#8217;s what I was told as a child. I have no idea why &#8211; it&#8217;s just a superstition. Any suggestions why white rabbits might be lucky? Do you do or say any other things on the first of each month to bring to luck?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29638108@N06\/9166175657\/in\/photolist-eXZ3Fk-6rfdoS-9QLAuh-71NgHr-811WUT-56syCG-GzuD2-8i1NSk-dX2Bw4-8Xfwgi-71Ngse-3gr5bN-87DB8V-KLgb5A-8Xgjqr-8Fncuh-eYbs9s-6WRZwN-egM62z-H2tini-28KGWdo-9tZ3Aa-8XizHC-8Xiz5f-HMgxg-8XfxJx-8Xiyny-NicCP-71SL75-98dD4m-fn963u-b1fHf-8XizLN-xLegS-8XfyJ8-8XiCBS-84h9SS-8XfxCi-aoGP6g-9QLzUw-8XiAv1-8XiC9j-na8mi5-pi6KpF-59sUaW-24piCBN-9SsJno-pG7Xqy-54xc1D-71Nh4X\" title=\"Rabbit\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7356\/9166175657_cb34fc4c39_z.jpg\" alt=\"Rabbit\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today is May Day and a bank holiday in the UK. Traditional activities on this day include Morris dancing, a form of folk dancing that dates back to at least 1448 and that is praticed mainly in England. It involves a bunch of blokes in unusual costumes dancing around, waving handkerchiefs and attacking each other with sticks. This is often perpetrated in the vicinity of a pub so that the participants can refresh themselves after their exertions.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/atoach\/6112950847\/in\/photolist-ajbtjg-6hXtKa-Gwzv8i-KCaQaF-KCaS8D-JNuV6W-69h6Ux-9GRqPT-KK54mp-KK53bD-KK54ac-221Wzb4-KK53Pn-KCaT3K-KK53y2-FF15qa-KGbMmy-KK5acx-KCaTwF-4Uh51T-2gqtXkQ-dZ67vU-2gD17VZ-nL8P2R-s7K8HA-dZ66MY-82ued9-KK5522-KCaUH8-KK54Ge-KCaUda-KCaTJz-9hHQ4q-JNuXX7-KK57vF-GuakgA-KCaRA6-KGbNtJ-JNE2hz-KK5arR-KGbN4W-KGbN9A-2iJMDi8-KCaVaF-KiVtkE-KGbNfC-KGbQw1-zL3S3-JU7XD-KCaVMn\" title=\"Morris dancers at Kirkstall Abbey\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/6195\/6112950847_1d91fc73eb_z.jpg\" alt=\"Morris dancers at Kirkstall Abbey\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saying &#8220;white rabbits&#8221; on the first day of each month apparently brings you luck, at least that&#8217;s what I was told as a child. I have no idea why &#8211; it&#8217;s just a superstition. Any suggestions why white rabbits might be lucky? Do you do or say any other things on the first of each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19899,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/19899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}