{"id":759,"date":"2009-01-28T23:23:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T23:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/01\/28\/we-can-all-stop-worrying-about-cello-scrotum-at-last\/"},"modified":"2009-01-28T23:54:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T23:54:50","slug":"we-can-all-stop-worrying-about-cello-scrotum-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/01\/28\/we-can-all-stop-worrying-about-cello-scrotum-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"We can all stop worrying about &#8220;cello scrotum&#8221; at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/45417000\/jpg\/_45417137_cello226282.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0(Apparently, doing this isn&#8217;t likely to damage the scrotum. bbc.co.uk)<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t resist linking <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/7853564.stm\" target=\"_blank\">to\u00a0 a post on the history of the mythical condition known in medical circles as \u201ccello scrotum,<\/a>\u201d (one I had never heard of until Kristen from Florida forwarded me the article from the BBC). How could one not be moved by such double-entendre rich writing as-<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA spokesman for the BMJ said that, 34 years on, no-one faced the sack for failing to spot the implausible condition. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Well, I\u2019m glad nobody is facing a sack afflicted with \u201ccello scrotum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One might applaud the BBC for having the balls to tackle so bawdy a subject, but I can only bow in admiration when a member of the House of Lords admits to \u201cdining out\u201d on cello scrotum for thirty years. And, I fall, supplicant, upon the floor in awe of the BBC&#8217;s use of the heading<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scrotal flak<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What more can I say&#8230;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/media\/CelloScrotum.mp3\">BBCs podcast<\/a> from PM on the subject.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/01\/28\/we-can-all-stop-worrying-about-cello-scrotum-at-last\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0(Apparently, doing this isn&#8217;t likely to damage the scrotum. bbc.co.uk) I couldn\u2019t resist linking to\u00a0 a post on the history of the mythical condition known in medical circles as \u201ccello scrotum,\u201d (one I had never heard of until Kristen from Florida forwarded me the article from the BBC). How could one not be moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}