{"id":322673,"date":"2010-02-15T06:17:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/de577acf3fe24735e1cb83e34346d4a5"},"modified":"2010-02-15T06:17:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T11:17:13","slug":"why-do-we-hiccup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/322673","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Hiccup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hiccups are known medically as singulitis and are because of the spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm. They serve no purpose in humans or other mammals and the sound is caused by sudden rush of air into the lungs when the epiglottis closes and the diaphragm contracts. <\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q7\/q73\/q735\/q7350\/q735080_462383_539_3466670128_7990a27d30.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png\" style=\"vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;border:0;\" title=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32426194@N00\/\" >admiller<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There are many reasons that are said to trigger hiccups. These reasons include:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">Lack of water<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">Crying and sobbing<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">Eating too quickly<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">Laughing or coughing a lot.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">Being hungry for long periods<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">Eating hot food and taking a chilled drink with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/Jxb_EzXGjZE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiccups are known medically as singulitis and are because of the spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm. They serve no purpose in humans or other mammals and the sound is caused by sudden rush of air into the lungs when the epiglottis closes and the diaphragm contracts. admiller There are many reasons that are said to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}