{"id":22542,"date":"2005-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/10\/i-used-to-believe\/"},"modified":"2005-03-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T06:00:00","slug":"i-used-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/10\/i-used-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"I Used To Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iusedtobelieve.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/blog_images\/20050310_iusedtobelieve.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"260\" height=\"50\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok, yesterday when doing a little web-research on peeing, I stumbled across the <a href=\"http:\/\/iusedtobelieve.com\/\">&#8220;I Used to Believe&#8221; site<\/a>, where you can read all about different childhood beliefs that people had. It&#8217;s really fascinating! I just had to post about it again. \ud83d\ude42 Here&#8217;s a couple good ones from the <a href=\"http:\/\/iusedtobelieve.com\/selected\/best\/\">&#8220;selected bests&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;When I was in kindergarden I used to believe that whenever we would sing &#8220;if you&#8217;re happy and you know it clap your hands&#8221;, the teacher was making a specific reference to something. In fear of her asking me what &#8220;it&#8221; was, I never clapped my hands. Now I know why teachers spent so much extra time with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to believe that when the judge sentenced a criminal to an impossibly long sentence (like 100+ years) that they kept his body in prison after he died until it was there for the whole sentence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to grow up and become a marine biologist, which seemed to me the perfect combination of studying nature and shooting people.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, yesterday when doing a little web-research on peeing, I stumbled across the &#8220;I Used to Believe&#8221; site, where you can read all about different childhood beliefs that people had. It&#8217;s really fascinating! I just had to post about it again. \ud83d\ude42 Here&#8217;s a couple good ones from the &#8220;selected bests&#8221;: &#8220;When I was in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/10\/i-used-to-believe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Used To Believe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5RA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}