{"id":4150,"date":"2013-02-02T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2013-02-02T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T17:00:24","slug":"lol-hairy-mammals-like-petting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/lol-hairy-mammals-like-petting\/","title":{"rendered":"LOL Hairy Mammals Like Petting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Nature<\/i> has published an article about the neurons that appear to be associated with enjoying being petted or stroked. The authors did their research with mice, but they enlisted cats \u2014 which are, after all, noted experts in the areas of mice and, of course, of being petted \u2014 to explain their work to the general public.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<object width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OFCRvjle2o8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nature11810\" target=\"_blank\"> Genetic identification of C fibres that detect massage-like stroking of hairy skin in vivo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature has published an article about the neurons that appear to be associated with enjoying being petted or stroked. The authors did their research with mice, but they enlisted cats \u2014 which are, after all, noted experts in the areas of mice and, of course, of being petted \u2014 to explain their work to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[221,778,832,917,1011,1158],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-2","category-science-2","tag-cats","tag-mice","tag-neurons","tag-petting","tag-reinforcement","tag-stroking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-14W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}