{"id":569,"date":"2012-11-05T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2012-12-05T10:58:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T16:58:27","slug":"facial-expressions-feel-the-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Facial expressions: Feel the burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/3097-facial-muscles-frown-smile.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Smile\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f7\/A_smile_a_day_keeps_the_pain_and_the_doctor_away.jpg\" alt=\"Smile\" width=\"177\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Zitona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019ve all received the emails, posts and tweets from well-meaning friends: \u201cIt takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown. Why tire yourself?\u201d But is it true? Has anyone actually tallied up the facial forces involved? \u00a0If so, did they account for the full range of smiles we express when amused, contented, excited, proud, satisfied or relieved? And is it true that the very act of smiling can make us happy?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/3097-facial-muscles-frown-smile.html\" target=\"_blank\">Does it Take More Muscles to Frown than Smile?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all received the emails, posts and tweets from well-meaning friends: \u201cIt takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown. Why tire yourself?\u201d But is it true? Has anyone actually tallied up the facial forces involved? \u00a0If so, did they account for the full range of smiles we express when amused, contented, excited, proud, satisfied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facial expressions: Feel the burn<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,63,67,475,415,3],"tags":[478,24,476,477],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-culture","category-medicine","category-neuroscience-science","category-psychology","category-science","tag-autonomic-nervous-system","tag-behavior","tag-expression","tag-mirror-neurons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}