{"id":32123,"date":"2013-01-09T10:46:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T17:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/09\/pruney-fingers-are-apparently-not-just-decorative.html"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:46:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T17:46:03","slug":"pruney-fingers-are-apparently-not-just-decorative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/09\/pruney-fingers-are-apparently-not-just-decorative.html","title":{"rendered":"Pruney Fingers are apparently not just decorative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently it&#39;s not just odd swelling from water. And there seem to be some possible evolutionary advantages. \u00a0(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"103748887870095862080\">Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107045876535773972576'>BBC News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why do we get wrinkled fingers in the bath?<\/p>\n<p>For a long time, it was assumed they were the result of skin swelling in water.<\/p>\n<p>But a different theory has now been tested: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-20951232\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-20951232<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/107045876535773972576\/albums\/5831403033836358113\/5831403037014522658?authkey=CIXZuv379_-S-wE'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-htKW8R0vnt4\/UO1OKoNieyI\/AAAAAAAAL0s\/iAgkFCMbQUQ\/fingers.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/L6XhrYc5XLR' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently it&#39;s not just odd swelling from water. And there seem to be some possible evolutionary advantages. \u00a0(h\/t +Les Jenkins) Reshared post from +BBC News Why do we get wrinkled fingers in the bath? For a long time, it was assumed they were the result of skin swelling in water. But a different theory has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/09\/pruney-fingers-are-apparently-not-just-decorative.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pruney Fingers are apparently not just decorative&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8966,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/15\/your_safety_tip.html","url_meta":{"origin":32123,"position":0},"title":"Your safety tip for today","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Mar-06 6:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"What should you do if your eyeball pops out of your head? 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