{"id":250,"date":"2012-07-11T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T19:09:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you heard of power bands? The most popular brand is Power Balance, a company which \u201cblend[s] the powers of Eastern Philosophy and Western Science with Innovative Technologies to deliver products that improve and enhance people\u2019s lives.\u201d Sounds impressive, eh? A power band (described by Power Balance as a \u201csports performance wristband\u201d) is a silicone bracelet with holograms that \u201cresonate with and respond to the natural energy field of the body.\u201d [Unless you buy one from Lifestrength, a competing company whose identical-looking bracelets create \u201cnegative ions\u201d.] According to numerous athletes paid to endorse the product, it really works.<\/p>\n

There is only one problem. They cost $30. That\u2019s a lot of money, even if it is virtually guaranteed to improve my life. That why I decided to buy a Placebo Band<\/a>. It works in exactly the same way as the Power Balance band, with exactly the same results. But it only costs $4! What a deal! I couldn\u2019t pass it up. Now I wear the power of belief around my wrist wherever I go. Shouldn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you heard of power bands? The most popular brand is Power Balance, a company which \u201cblend[s] the powers of Eastern Philosophy and Western Science with Innovative Technologies to deliver products that improve and enhance people\u2019s lives.\u201d Sounds impressive, eh? A power band (described by Power Balance as a \u201csports performance wristband\u201d) is a silicone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}