{"id":579,"date":"2012-11-19T14:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T20:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2012-12-05T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T20:38:59","slug":"the-scandalous-sneeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"The scandalous sneeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/3094-sneezing-like-orgasm.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fred Ott's Sneeze (film by William K.L. Dickson)\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/70\/Hapci-fr.gif\" alt=\"Fred Ott's Sneeze (film by William K.L. Dickson)\" width=\"184\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Ott&#8217;s Sneeze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 1894 kinetoscope of Fred Ott sneezing after inhaling a pinch of snuff, taken by Thomas Edison\u2019s laboratory, was one of the first human acts ever committed to film. If you believe the internet rumors concerning the relationship between sneezing and sex, it might also have been the first movie orgasm.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder nasal snuff was so popular for hundreds of years \u2013 and small wonder, too, that Pope Urban VIII threatened to excommunicate Catholics who took snuff in church&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeslittlemysteries.com\/3094-sneezing-like-orgasm.html\" target=\"_blank\">Is Sneezing Really Like an Orgasm?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1894 kinetoscope of Fred Ott sneezing after inhaling a pinch of snuff, taken by Thomas Edison\u2019s laboratory, was one of the first human acts ever committed to film. If you believe the internet rumors concerning the relationship between sneezing and sex, it might also have been the first movie orgasm. No wonder nasal snuff &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The scandalous sneeze<\/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":[7,22,63,128,82,67,475,64,3,207],"tags":[478,485,68,484,364],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-biochemistry","category-culture","category-film","category-health","category-medicine","category-neuroscience-science","category-religion","category-science","category-weird","tag-autonomic-nervous-system","tag-endorphins","tag-pathology","tag-rhinitis","tag-urban-legend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}