{"id":1816,"date":"2011-09-15T21:55:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T18:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2011-09-15T21:57:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T18:57:20","slug":"finger-licking-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/finger-licking-good","title":{"rendered":"Finger lickin&#8217; good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on the bus a woman sat next to me reading a newspaper. I started watching her from the corner of my eye once I noticed she was one of those people who lick their finger before turning the page (ick! It&#8217;s a public newspaper, other people will read it!). I find that habit so baffling.<\/p>\n<p>But then I noticed something else which almost made me chuckle out loud: she licked her right index finger as soon as she started reading the second page of each spread &#8212; long before she needed it for page-turning &#8212; and half the time she used the other, dry hand!<\/p>\n<p>I usually resort to finger licking when I&#8217;ve already struggled for some time trying to open a freezer bag (the ones I have are slippery). And then the saliva will only be transmitted to me after disinfection in the freezer.<\/p>\n<p>What I started thinking is, how much ink will these people swallow in their lifetime? I almost would&#8217;ve guessed Mythbusters had done an urban legend test on this but maybe not&#8230; (and the hits I got on Google were frankly very weird)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on the bus a woman sat next to me reading a newspaper. I started watching her from the corner of my eye once I noticed she was one of those people who lick their finger before turning the page (ick! It&#8217;s a public newspaper, other people will read it!). I find that habit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}