{"id":2436,"date":"2004-07-05T16:38:29","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T20:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/07\/05\/canya-gimme-hellboy-horns\/"},"modified":"2004-07-05T16:38:29","modified_gmt":"2004-07-05T20:38:29","slug":"canya-gimme-hellboy-horns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/07\/05\/canya-gimme-hellboy-horns\/","title":{"rendered":"Canya Gimme Hellboy Horns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3480'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"500\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"211\">\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/spockk.jpg\" width=\"345\" height=\"259\" align=\"left\">Sci-fi<br \/>\n          fan gets Spock Ears<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This is either the most promising sign of Chinese integration<br \/>\n          into the developed world, or the start of a brave new wave of serious<br \/>\n          body-mods&#8230;<\/em><strong><br \/>\n              <\/strong><br \/>\n        A sci-fi fan in China has had plastic surgery to give himself ears like<br \/>\n              Star Trek&#8217;s Mr Spock.<\/p>\n<p>        The young man astonished surgeons in Nanjing by telling them he wanted<br \/>\n          alien-like pointy ears.<\/p>\n<p>        He told them he was bored with the shape of his ears and wanted to make<br \/>\n          them a &#8216;more interesting&#8217; shape.<\/p>\n<p>        Plastic surgeons tried to talk the man out of the idea but he was adamant<br \/>\n          and the operation went ahead, the Yangtze Evening News reported.<\/p>\n<p>        Cosmetic surgery has boomed in popularity in China in recent years but<br \/>\n          the operation in Nanjing is believed to be the first of its kind.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_1008940.html?menu=\">from<br \/>\n        Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sci-fi fan gets Spock Ears This is either the most promising sign of Chinese integration into the developed world, or the start of a brave new wave of serious body-mods&#8230; A sci-fi fan in China has had plastic surgery to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/07\/05\/canya-gimme-hellboy-horns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}