{"id":117,"date":"2006-01-26T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2006\/01\/26\/117\/"},"modified":"2006-01-26T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T15:32:00","slug":"117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2006\/01\/26\/117\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things that most people believe that simply are not true:<\/p>\n<p>1. You can boil a frog to death if you heat the water very slowly.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/critters\/wild\/frogboil.htm\">NOT TRUE.<\/a><br \/>2. You only use ten percent of your brain.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/science\/stats\/10percnt.htm\">NOT TRUE<\/a>.<br \/>3. You have to wait a half hour after eating before going swimming.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/oldwives\/hourwait.asp\">NOT TRUE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Snopes explains about such things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Regardless of the exact version heard, the myth is spread and repeated, by both the well-meaning and the deliberately deceptive. The belief that remains, then, is what Robert J. Samuelson termed a &#8220;psycho-fact, [a] belief that, though not supported by hard evidence, is taken as real because its constant repetition changes the way we experience life.&#8221; People who don&#8217;t know any better will repeat it over and over, until, like the admonition against swimming right after you eat, the claim is widely believed. (&#8220;Triumph of the Psycho-Fact,&#8221; Newsweek, 9 May 1994.) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things that most people believe that simply are not true: 1. You can boil a frog to death if you heat the water very slowly. NOT TRUE.2. You only use ten percent of your brain. NOT TRUE.3. You have to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2006\/01\/26\/117\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}