{"id":355,"date":"2010-05-13T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/ideasdigest\/?p=355"},"modified":"2010-10-04T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T08:49:08","slug":"the-new-lepers-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/the-new-lepers-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"The new leper&#8217;s bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic image of people from the Far East wearing face masks at this time of colds and flu is made noticeable by the media and stands out on streets in the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But what is it about?\u00a0 Having studied this in crowds in Hong Kong, it is clear that most are worn by people who are coughing and spluttering (as in this photo on Star Ferry).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-356\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"face mask\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/face-mask-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"face mask\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/face-mask-266x300.jpg 266w, http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/face-mask.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A bit like a modern leper&#8217;s bell.\u00a0 Like a\u00a0special badge to say &#8220;I will not shake your hand (or air kiss) &#8211; I have a cold!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lesson?\u00a0 Beware of projecting assumptions from our neurosis onto others.\u00a0 And take responsibility for our issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic image of people from the Far East wearing face masks at this time of colds and flu is made noticeable by the media and stands out on streets in the UK.\u00a0 But what is it about?\u00a0 Having studied this in crowds in Hong Kong, it is clear that most are worn by people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[98,50,97,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}