{"id":419,"date":"2007-11-09T18:44:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T17:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2007-11-09T18:44:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T17:44:41","slug":"mmm-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Mmm, brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;truth is stranger than fiction file&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 40-year-old Egyptian who checked into a hospital with a complaint that something was moving in his brains actually had seven leeches crawling inside his ears.<\/p>\n<p>The patient was given a local anaesthetic and the leeches, each one measuring 2cm-long, were pulled out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full story in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gulfnews.com\/nation\/Health\/10166150.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf News<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;truth is stranger than fiction file&#8221;: A 40-year-old Egyptian who checked into a hospital with a complaint that something was moving in his brains actually had seven leeches crawling inside his ears. The patient was given a local anaesthetic and the leeches, each one measuring 2cm-long, were pulled out. Read the full story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}