{"id":804,"date":"2019-11-26T17:53:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=804"},"modified":"2020-04-30T05:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T09:56:17","slug":"evil-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/evil-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hulki-okan-tabak-GZI6ZtXpx14-unsplash-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-806\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hulki-okan-tabak-GZI6ZtXpx14-unsplash-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hulki-okan-tabak-GZI6ZtXpx14-unsplash-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hulki-okan-tabak-GZI6ZtXpx14-unsplash-1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hulki-okan-tabak-GZI6ZtXpx14-unsplash-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/hulki-okan-tabak-GZI6ZtXpx14-unsplash-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@hulkiokantabak?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Hulki Okan Tabak<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/evil-eye?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2001 my parents visited Turkey and came back with an \u201cEvil Eye\u201d pendant in the shape of a giant blue eyeball. My father hung it from the rearview mirror of the family car, where it was so huge it blocked half the view and slowed down the car by at least 15 km\/h.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One winter night I borrowed the car to run an errand. On the way there, a vehicle in front of me braked suddenly; I managed to do the same but ended up gently bumping into its read fender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No damage happened to the car in front of me, and none should\u2019ve happened to mine either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except for the giant Evil Eye which, upon the braking, was flung forward by the force of inertia and smashed into the windshield, cracking it all the way down the middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf it weren\u2019t for the Evil Eye,\u201d I told my father that night, \u201cnothing would\u2019ve happened to the windshield.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it weren\u2019t for the Evil Eye,\u201d my father replied, \u201cGod knows how much worse the accident could\u2019ve been.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2001 my parents visited Turkey and came back with an \u201cEvil Eye\u201d pendant in the shape of a giant blue eyeball. My father hung it from the rearview mirror of the family car, where it was so huge it blocked half the view and slowed down the car by at least 15 km\/h. One &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/evil-eye\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evil Eye&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramisalame.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}