{"id":12307,"date":"2008-10-14T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T08:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/scrapie.html"},"modified":"2008-10-14T08:30:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T08:30:56","slug":"scrapie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/10\/14\/scrapie.html","title":{"rendered":"Scrapie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">viral disease of sheep involving the central nervous system and characterized by lack of coordination causing affected animals to rub against trees etc. for support. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Scrapie is essentially the Mad Cow Disease for sheep. While there is little reason to worry about Scrapie or Mad Cow Disease being transmitted to humans I have on occasion found myself believing that I had somehow contracted one of these dread diseases. This happens to me at the more vulnerable times in my life, and in particular it happens when I am depressed and watching Fox News. At least twice in my life I came away from a Fox News broadcast believing that Mad Cow and Scrapie and other ghastly ailments were sweeping the human populations of the country and the world, and that I was doomed to a slow, tic-filled demise for having recently consumed a porterhouse steak. When that bout of depression passes, I remember that Fox News is generally entertainment first and substance third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A viral disease of sheep involving the central nervous system and characterized by lack of coordination causing affected animals to rub against trees etc. for support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-scrapie","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}