{"id":334,"date":"2010-05-03T21:58:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T02:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2010-05-31T07:21:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T12:21:28","slug":"gaze-averting-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/gaze-averting-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaze-averting glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you look at gorillas at the zoo, they might feel that you are threatening them.  We don&#8217;t like being stared at.  Fortunately, most of the time we&#8217;re invisible, so even when you&#8217;re staring at us, you might not see us (see this nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dshs-koeln.de\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/f3ff2b804f0009ad8ee3af11a279b932\/Memmert_2006_The_effects_of_eye-movements_age_and-expertise.pdf?MOD=AJPERES\">journal article<\/a> by a particularly sharp hairless primate I know in Germany).   <\/p>\n<p>For those times when you know a gorilla is there and you actually do see it, these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/gorilla-gaze-glasses\/\">cool glasses<\/a> will help you avoid threatening them or scaring them away.  Of course, if you wear them, you might inadvertently threaten the invisible gorillas standing near by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you look at gorillas at the zoo, they might feel that you are threatening them.  We don&#8217;t like being stared at.  Fortunately, most of the time we&#8217;re invisible, so even when you&#8217;re staring at us, you might not see us (see this nice journal article by a particularly sharp hairless primate I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gorillas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theinvisiblegorilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}