{"id":193011,"date":"2009-01-28T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/28\/cello-scrotum-a-hoax\/"},"modified":"2009-01-28T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T23:31:00","slug":"cello-scrotum-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/28\/cello-scrotum-a-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Cello Scrotum A Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that a noted British doctor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/europe\/01\/28\/uk.cello.scrotum.hoax\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">made up the condition and submitted it to the British Medical Journal in 1974<\/a>, in response to reports, which she thought were a prank\/hoax, of a condition called, &#8220;guitarist&#8217;s nipple&#8221;, which is or <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">alleged<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> to be<\/span> a chafed nipple from resting the guitar there.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I wouldn&#8217;t have cared, but I played cello when I was 9 and 10, before switching to trombone, so the hed made me want to read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that a noted British doctor made up the condition and submitted it to the British Medical Journal in 1974, in response to reports, which she thought were a prank\/hoax, of a condition called, &#8220;guitarist&#8217;s nipple&#8221;, which is or is alleged to be a chafed nipple from resting the guitar there. Normally, I wouldn&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1137,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-music","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}