{"id":31,"date":"2008-05-05T16:04:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T23:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/?p=31"},"modified":"2013-09-13T11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T18:42:17","slug":"yawns-and-kitties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/yawns-and-kitties\/","title":{"rendered":"Yawns and Kitties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"kumo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/62792837@N00\/2467187750\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/2467187750_c38e165059.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"kumo\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a title=\"Attribution-NoDerivs License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo_dropper\/images\/cc.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodropper.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a> credit: <a title=\"Tigerlily \/ * unique\u00e9\u00ad\u201d\u00e7\u00aa\u0178 *\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/62792837@N00\/2467187750\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tigerlily \/ * unique\u00e9\u00ad\u201d\u00e7\u00aa\u0178 *<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are yawns contagious?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>-Joanna<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I believe that yawns are the result of either a need to equalize pressure in your sinus cavity and ears or the desire to redistribute chemicals in your brain. Some studies suggest yawning is a means of placating nervousness, relieving stress, or alleviating sleepiness.<\/p>\n<p>So they are probably contagious because of some type of pack mentality. By also yawning you put yourself in a similar state as the person you saw yawn. Thus you affirm their state of being and consequently their need for yawnage. It is kind of like involuntary cuddling.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What the hell does kitty-corner mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Alan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If a kitty has corners it generally means that you have broken it some how. In spite of the 5 pointy ends that cats usually display they should not have corners. Cats should be roughly tubular and furry exhibiting slightly smaller tubes extending from the anterior &amp; posterior ends of their central tubes and a significantly smaller furry cylinder extending from their butt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo credit: Tigerlily \/ * unique\u00e9\u00ad\u201d\u00e7\u00aa\u0178 * Why are yawns contagious? -Joanna I believe that yawns are the result of either a need to equalize pressure in your sinus cavity and ears or the desire to redistribute chemicals in your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/yawns-and-kitties\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-questions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/2467187750_c38e165059.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delriomedia.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}