{"id":1868,"date":"2018-12-09T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2018-10-30T16:58:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:58:49","slug":"brain-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2018\/12\/09\/brain-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1883\" src=\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/brain3-300x237.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/>Your brain is amazing! Check out these facts based on ideas from one of my favorite online sites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biglifejournal.com\">www.biglifejournal.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The brain is always changing.<\/li>\n<li>There are about 100,000,000,000 neurons in the brain (same as the number of stars in the Milky Way).<\/li>\n<li>The brain produces enough electricity to power a light bulb.<\/li>\n<li>The brain grows from challenging ourselves not from getting the &#8216;right answers&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;When you exercise your brain, things that were difficult become easier.&#8221; [direct quote from big life journal]<\/li>\n<li>Big Life Journal recommends this kids book about the brain: <em>Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It<\/em> written by JoAnn Deak<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your brain is amazing! Check out these facts based on ideas from one of my favorite online sites www.biglifejournal.com\u00a0 The brain is always changing. There are about 100,000,000,000 neurons in the brain (same as the number of stars in the Milky Way). The brain produces enough electricity to power a light bulb. The brain grows\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2018\/12\/09\/brain-facts\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,191,321,326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metacognition","category-musings","category-science","category-the-brain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}