{"id":2097,"date":"2009-06-19T22:36:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T22:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-06-20T00:51:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T00:51:39","slug":"so_this_is_inte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2097","title":{"rendered":"So This Is Interesting…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nSorry – thought I’d posted this via Blackberry & it didn’t work…<\/i><\/p>\n

So one terrorism-related thing I worry about a bit is the old “nuke in the container loaded off the ship” gag. Especially since I work about 1 mile from a major container port.<\/p>\n

Today, I’m a lot less worried about it…<\/p>\n

The neck injury I have causes symptoms that are hard to distinguish from heart problems, so my doc decided a while ago that we’d just launch a pre-emptive set of tests, and makes me do a stress test every year or so.<\/p>\n

This year, I got to do a ‘nuclear stress test’ in which they inject me with a radioactive isotope (technicium), and use the gamma rays to make really cool 3-D images of my heart.<\/p>\n

So I can now attest that I do, in fact, have a heart. And that it works – it took just under 20 mins to get my heart rate up enough to finish the test.<\/p>\n

But that’s not what was interesting (except to me and Tenacious G and one or two others, I’d guess).<\/p>\n

What was interesting that there was a big sign that said that if I was going to the airport or the port, I needed to get a letter from the clinic.<\/p>\n

So we’re scanning there well enough to catch someone mildly irradiated, like me. Nice. very nice.<\/p>\n

I’m awaiting my new superpowers, and will report…<\/i>
\n–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal gets a first-hand look at preventing nuclear terrorism…and proves to his liberal friends he has a heart!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}