{"id":101,"date":"2026-07-05T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/seven-years-no-refunds\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:26:55","slug":"seven-years-no-refunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/seven-years-no-refunds\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Years, No Refunds: The Mirror Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider the mirror: a device that shows you yourself, which is already risky. Break one, and the universe &mdash; a famously reasonable landlord &mdash; bills you seven years of bad luck, compounding daily, no refunds, no proration for good behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Seven years! You can depreciate a tractor faster than that. Our legal ministry has petitioned the cosmos for a payment plan and received, to date, one (1) ominous breeze.<\/p>\n<h2>The evidence<\/h2>\n<p>The church evidence locker retained three photographs of a single mirror&rsquo;s descent into liability. Study them. Weep responsibly.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-101 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-1.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-1-1024x768.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-1-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-1-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-1-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-2.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-2-1024x768.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-2-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-2-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-2-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-2.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-3.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-3-1024x768.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-3-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-3-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-3-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-3-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/stupidstition-post-mirror-3.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Conclusion: do not break mirrors. If you must break something, break bread &mdash; the penalty is crumbs, and the interest rate is butter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Break a mirror and the universe issues a seven-year sentence with no appeals process. We photographed the evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[35,37,34,36],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-luck-science","tag-bad-luck","tag-glass","tag-mirrors","tag-refunds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stupidstition.wtf\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}