{"id":2866,"date":"2010-07-14T22:30:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T05:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2010-07-14T22:30:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T05:30:01","slug":"how-little-we-know-about-our-bodies-our-understanding-of-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/07\/14\/how-little-we-know-about-our-bodies-our-understanding-of-self\/","title":{"rendered":"How little we know about our bodies, our understanding of self."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d bet my house that if more Americans knew and accepted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/13\/science\/13micro.html\">this fact<\/a>, we&#8217;d have more rational identity politics: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe have over 10 times more microbes than human cells in our bodies,\u201d said George Weinstock of Washington University in St. Louis. But the microbiome, as it\u2019s known, remains mostly a mystery. \u201cIt\u2019s as if we have these other organs, and yet these are parts of our bodies we know nothing about.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much of our politics is a defense of a mistaken definition of self, an ignorance about the systems we inhabit and a tendency to &#8220;dumb down&#8221; what is always, inherently a complex web of relationships that are seldom apparent or what we believe them to be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d bet my house that if more Americans knew and accepted this fact, we&#8217;d have more rational identity politics: \u201cWe have over 10 times more microbes than human cells in our bodies,\u201d said George Weinstock of Washington University in St. Louis. But the microbiome, as it\u2019s known, remains mostly a mystery. \u201cIt\u2019s as if we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}