{"id":1079,"date":"2011-09-14T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T07:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2018-07-09T17:27:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:27:51","slug":"strange-competition-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Strange competition around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-648\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/video.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/>Well today, there are many sports events that are rather strange or new<br \/>\nto us. Yesterday I found this video showing men who seem to have a rather<br \/>\nodd &#8220;olympic&#8221; discipline: Namely to be the fastest to flush the nasal cavity<br \/>\nwith a gallon of water by sucking the water in with the nose, then flush it out.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Might be handy when you got the sniffles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yet I doubt that you feel comfy when you do this. If you can imagine when you last swallowed water and had to sneeze it out thru the nose, then you might get the idea, how painful that can be. Especially if it is salt water.<\/p>\n<p>But watch the video and decide for yourself&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1079-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-Aqua-Maris-World-Championship-Jala-Neti-360p.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-Aqua-Maris-World-Championship-Jala-Neti-360p.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-Aqua-Maris-World-Championship-Jala-Neti-360p.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well today, there are many sports events that are rather strange or new to us. Yesterday I found this video showing men who seem to have a rather odd &#8220;olympic&#8221; discipline: Namely to be the fastest to flush the nasal cavity with a gallon of water by sucking the water in with the nose, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,19,150],"tags":[700,699,161,151],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-ideas","category-thoughts-2","category-video","tag-competition","tag-nose","tag-odd","tag-water"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}