{"id":3635,"date":"2013-04-27T05:43:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T13:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howlheritage.com\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2013-05-03T07:24:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:24:52","slug":"bless-you-nose-broom-by-amber-poer-and-jeremy-hess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/?p=3635","title":{"rendered":"NOSE BROOM by Amber Poer and Jeremy Hess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ll come at any time of day; in the middle of a meeting, a presentation, a stage debut, and they\u2019ll come in fits of threes. Some people hold it in, some people let everything spray. Some people squeak when they sneeze; for others it takes more volume to get everything out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/64919268?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Heritage student Becky Savage has one of those recognizably loud sneezes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce in freshman year,\u201d she tells us, \u201cI was in the computer lab during 6th period. I sneezed and my science teacher opened the door to her classroom. Everyone in her class had heard me and they laughed and yelled \u2018Bless you!\u2019\u201d Her sneeze is so loud, people used to yell \u201cBless you!\u201d just to match the volume of her sternutation.<\/p>\n<p>Sneezes happen when an irritant tickles you nose hairs, but it takes teamwork for a sneeze to happen. <!--more-->The nose hairs just act as a broom\u2014it takes all the particles that we breathe in every breath absorbs them. They make sure we don\u2019t sneeze every time we breathe. When a particle gets by that the body does not want in the lungs, the tickled hairs send a signal through nerves in the upper lining of the nose to the part of the brain called the medulla . The medulla then tells the eyes to shut and the chest to constrict which helps propel the air out of the lungs\u2014as fast as 100mph.<\/p>\n<p>The old wives\u2019 tale that our heart stops every time we sneeze that is not true that it signals a lot of things but it does not stop the heart.<\/p>\n<p>Many things make us sneeze, ranging from secondhand smoke, pet allergens, dust, pollen and the Photic Reflex Sneeze phenomenon.<br \/>\nAs annoying and gross as sneezes can be, it\u2019s a natural mechanism your body performs to keep you healthy. And boy, does it feel good once that snot blows, no matter how loud it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ll come at any time of day; in the middle of a meeting, a presentation, a stage debut, and they\u2019ll come in fits of threes. Some people hold it in, some people let everything spray. Some people squeak when they sneeze; for others it takes more volume to get everything out. Heritage student Becky Savage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howlheritage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}