{"id":285264,"date":"2026-01-15T06:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/285264\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:23:09","slug":"stay-well-hiccups-what-are-they-why-do-we-get-them-and-whats-the-best-way-to-get-rid-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/285264\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Well: ?Hiccups \u2013 what are they, why do we get them and what\u2019s the best way to get rid of them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWe\u2019ve all had them. Sometimes they go easily, other times not so much. But what causes them and are they ever a sign of something more sinister? We ask the experts\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hiccups can be a real annoyance for us\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ettyImages_96168656.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Hiccups can be a real annoyance for us<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Hiccups have always been synonymous with hilarity in the movies, and 1940s rom-com The Philadelphia Story features what\u2019s probably the most famous ad-libbed hiccup in the history of cinema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Seated opposite Cary Grant, a \u2018drunk\u2019 Jimmy Stewart takes a long slug from a beaker of champagne, then, looking Grant straight in the eye, hiccups loudly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve all had them. Sometimes they go easily, other times not so much. But what causes them and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[18,135,19,17,23,6796],"class_list":{"0":"post-285264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker","13":"tag-service-journalism"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115897683310555620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}