{"id":26463,"date":"2009-05-09T20:59:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T20:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/05\/09\/hugging-down-hand-washing-up\/"},"modified":"2009-05-09T20:59:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T20:59:33","slug":"hugging-down-hand-washing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/09\/hugging-down-hand-washing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugging Down, Hand Washing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>About one in 10 Americans have stopped hugging and kissing close friends or relatives because of concerns about swine flu, according to a survey released Friday. About the same number have stopped shaking hands.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials have emphasized other measures to prevent spread of the virus, like washing hands and using hand sanitizers. The survey found about two-thirds of Americans are taking such steps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news161027985.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, with the Democrats in the White House, <a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2009\/04\/the-first-hug\/\">hugging was artificially inflated<\/a> to begin with, but this downward trend is still ungood.<\/p>\n<p>Have you stopped hugging?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About one in 10 Americans have stopped hugging and kissing close friends or relatives because of concerns about swine flu, according to a survey released Friday. About the same number have stopped shaking hands. Health officials have emphasized other measures to prevent spread of the virus, like washing hands and using hand sanitizers. The survey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/09\/hugging-down-hand-washing-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hugging Down, Hand Washing Up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6SP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}