{"id":1961,"date":"2014-08-27T07:24:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T05:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/08\/27\/superstition-myth-and-religion-offer-rationales\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:23:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:23:32","slug":"superstition-myth-and-religion-offer-rationales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/08\/27\/superstition-myth-and-religion-offer-rationales\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_nayf9bvH2k1rrwkloo1_1280.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_nayf9bvH2k1rrwkloo1_1280-500x382.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_nayf9bvH2k1rrwkloo1_1280-500x382.png 500w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_nayf9bvH2k1rrwkloo1_1280-100x76.png 100w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/tumblr_nayf9bvH2k1rrwkloo1_1280.png 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Superstition, myth, and religion offer rationales that fill in the empty spaces between performance and results. Their sorcery acts as a mortar that plugs the gaps between the physical and mental bricks that form the walls of our performances. Without that glue, the edifice would crumble. For peak performance, superstition isn\u2019t a defect but a necessity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2014\/08\/swing-copters\/379117\/?single_page=true\">Swing Copters: The Randomness of the Universe, Captured in Pixels &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superstition, myth, and religion offer rationales that fill in the empty spaces between performance and results. Their sorcery acts as a mortar that plugs the gaps between the physical and mental bricks that form the walls of our performances. Without that glue, the edifice would crumble. For peak performance, superstition isn\u2019t a defect but a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/08\/27\/superstition-myth-and-religion-offer-rationales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}