{"id":37496,"date":"2017-09-20T10:52:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=37496"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:55:42","slug":"the-cat-and-the-didgeridoo-or-my-what-big-ears-you-have-grandpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-cat-and-the-didgeridoo-or-my-what-big-ears-you-have-grandpa\/","title":{"rendered":"The cat and the didgeridoo, or, my, what big ears you have, Grandpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can a cat be both a solid and a liquid? That was a topic investigated by one of the scientists honored at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/winners\/#ig2017\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2017 Ig Nobel Prizes<\/a> last Thursday. Other researchers receiving Ig Nobels studied such topics as didgeridoo playing as a treatment for sleep apnea and snoring, how exposure to a live crocodile influences gambling behavior, the size of old men&#8217;s ears, walking backwards with a cup of coffee, whether identical twins can tell themselves apart, and other recondite topics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a cat be both a solid and a liquid? That was a topic investigated by one of the scientists honored at the 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes last Thursday. Other researchers receiving Ig Nobels studied such topics as didgeridoo playing as a treatment for sleep apnea and snoring, how exposure to a live crocodile influences &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-cat-and-the-didgeridoo-or-my-what-big-ears-you-have-grandpa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The cat and the didgeridoo, or, my, what big ears you have, Grandpa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-9KM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37496"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37524,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37496\/revisions\/37524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}