{"id":6204,"date":"2012-09-04T20:25:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T03:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2012-09-04T20:25:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T03:25:26","slug":"thinking-about-body-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6204","title":{"rendered":"Thinking About Body Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4944\" title=\"userpic=caduceus\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpiccaduceus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"98\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>This evening I&#8217;ve been thinking about body parts. Partially it is because I bit my cheek earlier in the day, and you all know what happens when you do &#8212; you end up chewing it more. Partially it is because I&#8217;ve been dealing with a headache. A third reason is an interesting article I saw today from Mental Floss that looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/113299\">11 Insane Features of the Human Body<\/a>. Some of these features are insidious: once you start looking at them, you can&#8217;t stop looking.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two that I sometimes fixate on. First, ears. If you think about it, ears are just funny looking. Oddly shaped. Wrinkled. Rarely does someone come up and go &#8220;Nice ears&#8221;. Eyes &#8212; yes. Mouth &#8212; yes. Even the nose occasionally. But ears.<\/p>\n<p>But the ears aren&#8217;t what I sometimes find myself watching. Eyebrows. No, I&#8217;m not talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/image\/la-ig-brows-20120902,0,6963956.story\">eyebrows as fashion statement<\/a>. I&#8217;m just talking about the look of the brows themselves. Sometimes heavy. Sometimes delicate. But fascinating to watch as a person talks and expresses emotion. It is just really interesting to watch how much information can be conveyed through the eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>So what oddly visible part of the human anatomy do you find your self watching sometimes (and please, folks, keep it clean<em>)?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening I&#8217;ve been thinking about body parts. Partially it is because I bit my cheek earlier in the day, and you all know what happens when you do &#8212; you end up chewing it more. Partially it is because I&#8217;ve been dealing with a headache. A third reason is an interesting article I saw <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6204\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6206,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions\/6206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}