{"id":1835,"date":"2003-10-12T18:24:20","date_gmt":"2003-10-13T08:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/i-used-to-believe\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:32:09","slug":"i-used-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/12\/i-used-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"I used to believe&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13148,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.iusedtobelieve.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260209000316\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.iusedtobelieve.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:05:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 07:05:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Randomly following links, I just stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iusedtobelieve.com\" title=\"I used to believe\">I used to believe<\/a>, a site collecting all the wonderful and weird things that children believe about the world around them. It&#8217;s <em>so<\/em> worth spending some time going through.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  When we were little, my mother had bought us a book titled, &#8220;How You Were Born&#8221;. In this book, there was an illustration of a sperm under a magnifying glass. For years, I thought the magnifying glass was a frying pan and was totally mystified by where and how the frying pan fit into the reproductive process.<\/p>\n<p>  I had a strange fear that if I closed my eyes in the bathtub, William Shakespeare would come up through the drain and kill me. I knew his name, but I had no idea who he was, so I just naturally assumed he was some sort of bathtub vampire.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were little, my mother had bought us a book titled, &#8216;How You Were Born&#8217;.  In this book, there was an illustration of a sperm under a magnifying glass.  For years, I  thought the magnifying glass was a frying pan and was totally mystified by where and how the frying pan fit into the reproductive process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}