{"id":23143,"date":"2008-03-11T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/03\/11\/exercise-doesnt-have-any-effect-unless-you-know-youre-doing-it\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T10:00:01","slug":"exercise-doesnt-have-any-effect-unless-you-know-youre-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080311-01\/?p=23143","title":{"rendered":"Exercise doesn&#039;t have any effect unless you know you&#039;re doing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=17792517\"> Hotel maids began losing weight once they were informed that their normal job activities counted as exercise<\/a>. I can&#8217;t want for somebody to test whether this placebo effect works in reverse; that is, whether you will lose weight if you aren&#8217;t actually exercising but <i>believe that you are<\/i>. If it works, then sign me up! (Oh rats, they addressed this in the interview.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hotel maids began losing weight once they were informed that their normal job activities counted as exercise. I can&#8217;t want for somebody to test whether this placebo effect works in reverse; that is, whether you will lose weight if you aren&#8217;t actually exercising but believe that you are. If it works, then sign me up! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-23143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Hotel maids began losing weight once they were informed that their normal job activities counted as exercise. I can&#8217;t want for somebody to test whether this placebo effect works in reverse; that is, whether you will lose weight if you aren&#8217;t actually exercising but believe that you are. If it works, then sign me up! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}