{"id":1249,"date":"2009-10-14T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/10\/choose-your-nightmare.html"},"modified":"2009-10-14T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T11:17:00","slug":"choose-your-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/10\/choose-your-nightmare.html","title":{"rendered":"Choose Your Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if coming up on 50 and facing the inevitable colonoscopy wasn&#8217;t frightening enough, science will now offer alternative nightmare fodder.  If the thought of having your innards chemically evacuated and subsequently snaked like a clogged drain doesn&#8217;t send you screaming into the night, now you can choose to instead swallow a spider.  That is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/10\/12\/spider-pill-bowel-scanner-will-be-ready-within-a-year\/\">a spider-cam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/10\/12\/spider-pill-bowel-scanner-will-be-ready-within-a-year\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 510px; height: 284px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2009\/10\/12oct09_spiderpill.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Isn&#8217;t he cute?  Just imagine his tiny little legs scuttling up and down your GI tract.  His adorable 4-up headlights showing the doctor-cum-videogamer what you&#8217;re like on the inside.  Next thing you know they&#8217;ll equip it with frickin&#8217; lasers to zap the polyps, and of course by then, the interface will have scoring so the docs can compete with each other for high score.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the humanity&#8230;<\/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>As if coming up on 50 and facing the inevitable colonoscopy wasn&#8217;t frightening enough, science will now offer alternative nightmare<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/10\/choose-your-nightmare.html\" title=\"Read Choose Your Nightmare\">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-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","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=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}