{"id":29,"date":"2010-11-21T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/21\/the-mind%e2%80%99s-eye-by-oliver-sacks"},"modified":"2010-11-21T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T20:31:00","slug":"the-minds-eye-by-oliver-sacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"The Mind\u2019s Eye by Oliver Sacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/8147497\/The-Minds-Eye-by-Oliver-Sacks-review.html\">I reviewed this for the Sunday Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_medium_quote\">\n<p>There is something very New York about the cultivated, yet horripilating    glimpse Sacks gives of his own mortality. Years ago the actor Spalding Gray    took a more brutal approach, screaming &#8216;DEATH!&rsquo; in the middle of an otherwise genial monologue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Media_httpitelegraphc_roxlb\" height=\"293\" src=\"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/media_httpitelegraphc_roxlb-scaled500.jpg?w=220\" width=\"220\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reviewed this for the Sunday Telegraph: There is something very New York about the cultivated, yet horripilating glimpse Sacks gives of his own mortality. Years ago the actor Spalding Gray took a more brutal approach, screaming &#8216;DEATH!&rsquo; in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=29\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,115],"tags":[10,33,67,69,72,93,96],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews-and-opinion","category-115","tag-blindness","tag-eye","tag-new-york","tag-oliver-sacks","tag-perception","tag-stereoscopy","tag-sunday-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}