{"id":880423,"date":"2025-12-25T00:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/10-funny-ways-that-researchers-overthink-christmas\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T00:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:18:23","slug":"10-funny-ways-that-researchers-overthink-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/10-funny-ways-that-researchers-overthink-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Funny Ways That Researchers Overthink Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Scientists leave no stone unturned, not even at the North Pole. While most people munch on mince pies and decorate Christmas trees, researchers\u2014often in good fun\u2014try to find scientific explanations for various aspects of the festive season. From why Santa Claus has an unhealthy job to the neuroscience of Christmas cheer&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/listverse.com\/2025\/12\/23\/10-funny-ways-that-researchers-overthink-christmas\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Jamie Frater<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Scientists leave no stone unturned, not even at the North Pole. While most people munch on mince pies and decorate Christmas trees, researchers\u2014often in good fun\u2014try to find scientific explanations for various aspects of the festive season. From why Santa Claus has an unhealthy job to the neuroscience of Christmas cheer&#8230;Read MoreJamie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":880424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4603,5016,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-funny","category-researchers","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}