{"id":1119,"date":"2009-10-21T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T11:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/10\/the-science-of-cute.html"},"modified":"2009-10-21T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T11:23:18","slug":"the-science-of-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2009\/10\/the-science-of-cute.html","title":{"rendered":"The Science Of Cute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/budge-reverse-budge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"budge-reverse-budge.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/112\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/budge-reverse-budge-thumb-442x647-8731.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"442\" height=\"647\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">How is it that small children are even more adorable when they&#8217;re upside down? Does cuteness bend gravity in such a way that the very physics of sweetness are amplified when the object of sweetness is suspended in mid-air? <i>Science is amazing.<\/i><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is it that small children are even more adorable when they&#8217;re upside down? Does cuteness bend gravity in such a way that the very physics of sweetness are amplified when the object of sweetness is suspended in mid-air? 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