{"id":1793,"date":"2008-11-22T18:32:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T23:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2013-06-08T19:19:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T00:19:41","slug":"finally-got-a-brain-life-size-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"Finally got a brain (life size, too)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/brain_38037.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>No, I didn&#8217;t get it from the Wizard of Oz, although some may allege a resemblance to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scarecrow_%28Oz%29\" target=\"_blank\">the scarecrow<\/a>. Ignore them. I got this brain-shaped spongy stress ball from a satisfied client last week after doing a video about traumatic brain injuries.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out I&#8217;ve got experience there, after decades of bouncing my body off the earth (and whatever else gets in the way). I&#8217;ve stuffed my skull slightly through a friend&#8217;s windshield, trashed a few motorcycle and mountain bike helmets, taken a few hits to the head in karate (you can&#8217;t block &#8217;em all), and I don&#8217;t even remember what else. I probably don&#8217;t remember because of my history of traumatic brain injuries! I&#8217;ve had some extended hospital stays to nurse my bruised melon in Montana and North Dakota. As far as I can tell, however, there has never been any permanent dain bramage.<\/p>\n<p>Side effects of TBI&#8217;s can include headaches, nausea, dizziness, impulsiveness, difficulty finishing tasks, memory loss, and I forget the other ones I highlighted in the video. Strange&#8230;I can&#8217;t get past memory loss!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I now have a brain. Stay tuned to see if I use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I didn&#8217;t get it from the Wizard of Oz, although some may allege a resemblance to the scarecrow. Ignore them. I got this brain-shaped spongy stress ball from a satisfied client last week after doing a video about traumatic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1793\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funnyunusual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}