{"id":39,"date":"2013-01-16T21:11:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T21:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/?p=39"},"modified":"2017-09-11T21:12:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T21:12:17","slug":"stiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/2013\/01\/16\/stiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Stiff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>While not a classic like\u00a0Rabid\u00a0or\u00a0Are You There God, Stiff is an interesting history of the dead body and its many uses.\u00a0 Who would guess that there were so many things you could do with a dead body?\u00a0 And, thanks to the creative minds of this world, we are still working on creative ways to dispose of them:\u00a0 Think Compost Piles.<\/p>\n

Stiff is an interesting book but not for the squeamish.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve ever loved someone who donated their body to science\u2026do not read.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve ever known someone who died\u2026read with caution.\u00a0 If you think you might die and haven\u2019t worked out the final details of your mortal shell\u2026like, do you choose freeze-dry or fire\u2026read immediately!<\/p>\n

The idea of death is hard enough for some people.\u00a0 Realizing what we do to some dead bodies in the name of science and industry will be more than a few will be able to take lying down.<\/p>\n

This is a ghoulish but interesting read and worth the\u00a0$15 at Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While not a classic like\u00a0Rabid\u00a0or\u00a0Are You There God, Stiff is an interesting history of the dead body and its many … More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Stiff","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookshelf","","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9aBd1-stiff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}