{"id":49,"date":"2008-01-10T00:25:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T08:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2021-02-06T20:24:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T04:24:33","slug":"%e2%99%a9shake-it-like-a-polaroid-picture%e2%99%ac%e2%99%ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"? Shake It Like A Polaroid Picture ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/070425_eyes_memory.html\">this article<\/a>, wiggling your eyes back and forth can help your memory. Who&#8217;da thunk it?!<\/p>\n<p>People read these articles all the time on the internet. Typical reaction: &#8220;Huh! How about that?&#8221; Then you read the next article.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I decided I would use try to put this little bizarre tidbit to work for me. A few days ago, I was at a karaoke thing (&#8220;event&#8221;?) and I was trying to remember the artist that performs the song &#8220;Toxicity&#8221;, a song with a lot of desperate yelling, which I of course very much enjoy. I could remember they were Armenian, thanks to frequent mention by Adam Carolla on Loveline, but I couldn&#8217;t remember the name.<\/p>\n<p>So I wiggled my eyes back and forth for a few seconds \u2013 maybe 15 seconds. And it came to me. &#8220;System of a Down&#8221;. The song was not in the book, but hey, I validated a new memory trick.<\/p>\n<p>Try it yourself next time something&#8217;s on the tip of your tongue. Look left, look right, repeat. You have nothing to lose but your dignity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article, wiggling your eyes back and forth can help your memory. Who&#8217;da thunk it?! People read these articles all the time on the internet. Typical reaction: &#8220;Huh! How about that?&#8221; Then you read the next article. Well, I decided I would use try to put this little bizarre tidbit to work for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=49\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">? Shake It Like A Polaroid Picture ?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}