{"id":2006,"date":"2009-01-17T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T17:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2009-01-17T13:31:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T17:31:57","slug":"psychiatric-knit-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/psychiatric-knit-wit\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatric knit-wit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/4245919\/Psychiatrist-knits-anatomically-correct-woolly-brain.html\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/multimedia\/archive\/01239\/norberg_brain2_1239532a.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"230\" height=\"144\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Psychiatrist Dr Karen Norberg, of National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spent a year knitting an anatomically correct replica of the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, there were two humorous aspects. One was simply to undertake such a ridiculously complex, time consuming project for no practical reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The second was the idea of making a somewhat mysterious and difficult object &#8211; a brain &#8211; out of a &#8216;cuddly&#8217;, cheerfully coloured, familiar material like cotton yarn.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here we have the rare case of a psychiatrist spending a year doing something useful &#8211; insofar as she could not use the time taken knitting to further muddle some already sufficiently addled patient-victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Telegraph Psychiatrist Dr Karen Norberg, of National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spent a year knitting an anatomically correct replica of the human brain. &#8220;For me, there were two humorous aspects. One was simply to undertake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/psychiatric-knit-wit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}