{"id":14094,"date":"2020-04-15T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=14094"},"modified":"2020-04-15T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:05:01","slug":"hey-wall-i-heard-that-research-shows-human-beings-need-10-hugs-a-day-to-stay-healthy-can-i-have-a-hug-what-do-we-do-these-days-with-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/04\/15\/hey-wall-i-heard-that-research-shows-human-beings-need-10-hugs-a-day-to-stay-healthy-can-i-have-a-hug-what-do-we-do-these-days-with-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey wall! I heard that research shows human beings need 10 hugs a day to stay healthy. Can I have a hug? What do we do these days with social distancing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s for sure a literature that touch is important for humans (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-hugs\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-hugs<\/a>), though there&#8217;s online disagreement about whether eight or ten is the right number&#8230;some of which looks loosely tied to the research. ??????????. If you&#8217;re isolated and need that kind of contact you can sometimes play a trick on your mind. Hug yourself. This sounds stupid, but the part of your brain involved doesn&#8217;t know the difference. One of my helpers who was super skeptical says it worked for him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s for sure a literature that touch is important for humans (https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-hugs), though there&#8217;s online disagreement about whether eight or ten is the right number&#8230;some of which looks loosely tied to the research. ??????????. If you&#8217;re isolated and need that kind of contact you can sometimes play a trick on your mind. Hug yourself. This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/04\/15\/hey-wall-i-heard-that-research-shows-human-beings-need-10-hugs-a-day-to-stay-healthy-can-i-have-a-hug-what-do-we-do-these-days-with-social-distancing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hey wall! I heard that research shows human beings need 10 hugs a day to stay healthy. Can I have a hug? What do we do these days with social distancing?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14096,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions\/14096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}