{"id":2733,"date":"2025-12-16T14:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:48:45","slug":"oliver-sacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/oliver-sacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Sacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I remember the bookstore in Buffalo where I found &#8220;The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat&#8221; in 1985. I finished the book before I went to bed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting the next day, I relied on the work of Oliver Sacks to buttress, accentuate, and explain all manner of arguments and insights. Over the years I continued to collect his books and eagerly read pieces he published in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot count the times I must have been full of shit &#8211; relying on Sacks as an authority. To be clear: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15388461\/British-scientist-Oliver-Sacks-fabricated-details-books-patients.html\">his <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15388461\/British-scientist-Oliver-Sacks-fabricated-details-books-patients.html\">shit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the bookstore in Buffalo where I found &#8220;The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat&#8221; in 1985. I finished the book before I went to bed. Starting the next day, I relied on the work of Oliver &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/oliver-sacks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,65],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-conflict","tag-mental-hygiene"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}