{"id":1120,"date":"2015-08-14T06:13:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2015-08-14T06:13:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:13:59","slug":"aphasia-oliver-sacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Aphasia &#8211; Oliver Sacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About Oliver Sacks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oliver Sacks, M.D. is a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as &#8220;the poet laureate of medicine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sacks is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oliver Sacks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Norma<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Oliver Sacks Oliver Sacks, M.D. is a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as &#8220;the poet laureate of medicine&#8221;. He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife &#8230; <a title=\"Aphasia &#8211; Oliver Sacks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/?p=1120\" aria-label=\"Read more about Aphasia &#8211; Oliver Sacks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphasia","category-family","category-friend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sassquatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}