{"id":1564,"date":"2010-03-06T07:25:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T12:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2010-03-03T08:38:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:38:41","slug":"screw-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/03\/screw-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Screw This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-27083_3-10461572-247.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Surgical Screws\" src=\"http:\/\/i.i.com.com\/cnwk.1d\/i\/bto\/20100301\/Fraunhofer_IFAM_270x217.jpg\" alt=\"Surgical Screws\" width=\"270\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a>A couple decades back I split my kneecap after wiping out on a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">luge run<\/span> sledding hill.\u00a0 As a result I was treated to my first encounter with surgical screws.\u00a0 What amazed me at the time was how similar they were to the screws in my workshop.\u00a0 Somehow it seemed they would be more special.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery was bad enough, but about six months later I had to go back in and have the hardware removed.\u00a0 Frankly, that was way worse (probably because it was only done under a local anesthetic), and the hole left behind took the better part of two years to heal.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I think this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-27083_3-10461572-247.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\">new development<\/a> is very cool.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve now developed a screw made of polylactic acid and hydroxylapatite,  a ceramic that\u00a0 is the  main constituent of bone material.\u00a0 That means that once the screw is inserted it is absorbed by the body as bone grows into it.\u00a0 This should mean faster and better bone healing as well as no one having to suffer through having Home Depot reclaim its inventory from inside their body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple decades back I split my kneecap after wiping out on a luge run sledding hill.\u00a0 As a result<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/03\/screw-this.html\" title=\"Read Screw This\">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":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-sliceoflife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","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=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}