{"id":1558,"date":"2007-07-13T15:27:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T19:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/13\/a-shorter-version-of-the-bionic-man\/"},"modified":"2007-07-13T15:27:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T19:27:44","slug":"a-shorter-version-of-the-bionic-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/13\/a-shorter-version-of-the-bionic-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A shorter version of The Bionic Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peng Shulin was cut in half after getting run over by a truck in 1995, and lost the lower half of his body. Doctors did skin grafts to seal up his torso, but he has been bed-ridden for years &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/weird\/article.html?in_article_id=56500&amp;in_page_id=2\">until now<\/a>. Scientists at the Chinese Rehabilitation Research Center created a kind of plastic housing for his torso that is fitted with two bionic legs (and some cool Adidas shoes as well, apparently), and he has been using the device with a modified walker. I wonder if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnyeckmuseum.com\/bio.html\">Johnny Eck<\/a> would have liked something similar &#8212; probably not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/weird\/article.html?in_article_id=56500&amp;in_page_id=2\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" border=\"0\" class=\"center\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/halfman2_450x400.jpg?w=525\" alt='halfman2_450\u00c3\u2014400.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peng Shulin was cut in half after getting run over by a truck in 1995, and lost the lower half of his body. Doctors did skin grafts to seal up his torso, but he has been bed-ridden for years &#8212; until now. Scientists at the Chinese Rehabilitation Research Center created a kind of plastic housing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/13\/a-shorter-version-of-the-bionic-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A shorter version of The Bionic Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}