{"id":4333,"date":"2013-05-16T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/05\/16\/your-electric-fan-is-trying-to-kill-you-and-other-cultural-superstitions\/"},"modified":"2013-05-16T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T07:00:01","slug":"your-electric-fan-is-trying-to-kill-you-and-other-cultural-superstitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20130516-01\/?p=4333","title":{"rendered":"Your electric fan is trying to kill you, and other cultural superstitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Korea, it is generally believed that leaving a fan on in an enclosed room can be fatal. Ken Jennings <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1451656254\/&amp;tag=tholneth-20\"> looks at cultural superstitions<\/a> and wrote a Slate article focusing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/foreigners\/2013\/01\/fan_death_korean_moms_think_that_your_electric_fan_will_kill_you.html\"> the scourge of Korean fan death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> My mother told me that handling cellophane tape makes you sterile. Though that may have just been her way of getting me to stop playing with cellophane tape. <\/p>\n<p> What strange cultural superstitions exist in your part of the world? (Of course, this is a bit of an unfair question, because if you genuinely believe it, then you won&#8217;t recognize it  as a strange cultural superstition!) <\/p>\n<p> <b>Clarification<\/b>: Please reply in the spirit of the article. Keep it fun. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Korea, it is generally believed that leaving a fan on in an enclosed room can be fatal. Ken Jennings looks at cultural superstitions and wrote a Slate article focusing on the scourge of Korean fan death. My mother told me that handling cellophane tape makes you sterile. Though that may have just been her [&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-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In Korea, it is generally believed that leaving a fan on in an enclosed room can be fatal. Ken Jennings looks at cultural superstitions and wrote a Slate article focusing on the scourge of Korean fan death. My mother told me that handling cellophane tape makes you sterile. Though that may have just been her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","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=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/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=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}