{"id":238971,"date":"2025-05-21T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=238971"},"modified":"2025-05-21T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:20:18","slug":"the-savoir-vivre-of-yawning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/the-savoir-vivre-of-yawning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Savoir Vivre of Yawning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"124\" data-end=\"651\"><strong><em>by Christos Zabounis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"124\" data-end=\"651\">Agathi\u2019s taverna could barely fit the eighty volunteers of the Aegean Team who had come to the dinner hosted by the president of the Irakleia Community. I sat among a group of young doctors\u2014some still in residency\u2014who had bonded during the 31st Crossing. The atmosphere was pleasant, the local goat stew delicious, the lyra player in high spirits. But just before midnight, after a full day that included a morning sail from Amorgos with favorable wind and afternoon clinics, fatigue began to take its toll on my fellow diners. A young woman yawned first, and\u2014as happens, for reasons I still don\u2019t understand\u2014we all began to yawn. Most of us, however, covered our mouths with our hands. In pre-war days, our grandparents would have used their handkerchiefs. Today\u2014alas!\u2014either out of boredom or lack of manners, younger generations have turned yawning into a kind of \u201csport,\u201d complete with arm stretches and full-body extensions. In private, such behavior often goes unnoticed\u2014although private habits are frequently carried into the public sphere. In a social setting, however, or worse still, a professional meeting, yawning without covering one\u2019s mouth is considered rude. If nature compels us to yawn, we should do so as discreetly as possible, ideally offering a quiet \u201cexcuse me,\u201d without explanations like \u201cI\u2019m exhausted\u201d or \u201cit\u2019s been a long day.\u201d In the talks I occasionally give at elementary schools\u2014mostly private ones\u2014I often share an example that seems to stick with students. One afternoon, a child yawned without covering their mouth. A fly flew straight in, and the child panicked, thinking it was a wasp. Fear teaches caution, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christos Zabounis Agathi\u2019s taverna could barely fit the eighty volunteers of the Aegean Team who had come to the dinner hosted by the president of the Irakleia Community. I sat among a group of young doctors\u2014some still in residency\u2014who had bonded during the 31st Crossing. The atmosphere was pleasant, the local goat stew delicious, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":238968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18496],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238973,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238971\/revisions\/238973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}