{"id":29073,"date":"2021-07-31T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T19:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=29073"},"modified":"2021-07-31T15:26:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T19:26:25","slug":"a-case-of-the-twisties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2021\/07\/31\/a-case-of-the-twisties\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case Of The Twisties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Live Science <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/simone-biles-what-are-twisties.html?utm_campaign=socialflow\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s happening inside Simone Biles&#8217; brain when the &#8216;twisties&#8217; set in?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA complex system in the brain that keeps gymnasts balanced can get out of whack.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had a chance to experience this when I was learning SCUBA diving.  I was doing somersaults in the water when I suddenly lost the ability to feel which way was up.  I had to stop all motion to recover.  If I hadn&#8217;t been wearing SCUBA gear, I might have run out of breath before my senses recovered.  I never did somersaults in the water again.<\/p>\n<p>This article is something we non-athletes need to understand before we criticize athletes.  Max Blumenthal&#8217;s recent remarks about Simone Biles are so reprehensible, that I may not be able to listen to him ever again. It&#8217;s like I have the twisties about Max Blumnenthal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Science has the article What&#8217;s happening inside Simone Biles&#8217; brain when the &#8216;twisties&#8217; set in? A complex system in the brain that keeps gymnasts balanced can get out of whack. I had a chance to experience this when I was learning SCUBA diving. I was doing somersaults in the water when I suddenly lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29075,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29073\/revisions\/29075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}