{"id":1213,"date":"2009-09-12T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/09\/talk-about-yer-two-fers.html"},"modified":"2009-09-12T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T11:47:00","slug":"talk-about-yer-two-fers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/09\/talk-about-yer-two-fers.html","title":{"rendered":"Talk About Yer Two-fers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2009\/09\/090908-liposuction-leftovers-fat-stem-cells.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 113px;\" src=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/images\/thumbs\/090908-liposuction-leftovers-fat-stem-cells_170.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s damned rare when a doctor can give you a good-news\/good-news diagnosis, but that time may be coming.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2009\/09\/090908-liposuction-leftovers-fat-stem-cells.html\">Scientists have figured out<\/a> how to turn your fat into stem cells that could potentially be used to grow new tissue or organs for you.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a future where the doctor says, &#8220;We can generate a new liver for you, but we&#8217;ll need to suck some of that fat out of your middle to get the job done.&#8221;  Talk about your win-wins.<\/p>\n<p>The understatement award goes to Stanford University plastic surgeon Michael Longaker who stated that human fat is &#8220;an abundant natural resource and a renewable one.&#8221;  Hell, this could be the one resource where America could be the undisputed primary supplier to the whole world.   It could give a whole new meaning to fat farms.<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Please Mrs. Miller, just try to squeeze in a few more scoops of Haagen-Dazs.  We have a major order to fill and you are under quota this week.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be a dirty job&#8230; but someone would have to step up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s damned rare when a doctor can give you a good-news\/good-news diagnosis, but that time may be coming. Scientists have<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/09\/talk-about-yer-two-fers.html\" title=\"Read Talk About Yer Two-fers\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}