{"id":706,"date":"2014-01-27T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T22:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=706"},"modified":"2014-02-04T17:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T23:01:36","slug":"nocturnal-commissions-water-bowl-v-bladder-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Nocturnal Commissions: Water Bowl v. Bladder Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/life\/human-biology\/will-putting-hands-in-warm-water-make-them-wet-bed.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Waterfall\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/27\/Waterfalls_NY.jpg\/320px-Waterfalls_NY.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>We\u2019ve all heard stories of bedwetting brought about by placing a sleeper\u2019s hand in a pan of warm water. Yet attempts at experimental confirmation have hardly been flush with success. Are the stories true? And if so, what urological or psychological mechanism is at work?<\/p>\n<p>We spend years developing the ability to stay dry at night. Why not spend a few minutes reading about how easily it can be undone?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/life\/human-biology\/will-putting-hands-in-warm-water-make-them-wet-bed.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Will Putting People\u2019s Hands in Warm Water Really Make Them Wet the Bed?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard stories of bedwetting brought about by placing a sleeper\u2019s hand in a pan of warm water. Yet attempts at experimental confirmation have hardly been flush with success. Are the stories true? And if so, what urological or psychological mechanism is at work? We spend years developing the ability to stay dry at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=706\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nocturnal Commissions: Water Bowl v. Bladder Control<\/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":[63,67,475,415,3,207],"tags":[777,781,779,775,780,774,778,776],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-medicine","category-neuroscience-science","category-psychology","category-science","category-weird","tag-bladder","tag-cerebrum","tag-micturition-reflex","tag-night-dryness","tag-pons","tag-prank","tag-urinary-sphincter","tag-urology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}