{"id":24,"date":"2006-12-28T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2006\/12\/body-in-simple-language.html"},"modified":"2006-12-28T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T09:30:00","slug":"body-in-simple-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2006\/12\/body-in-simple-language.html","title":{"rendered":"The Body in Simple Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally found a book on the human body I can understand! Last night I wanted to read Katherine the story of Baby Jesus again to squeeze the most religion out of these days around Christmas since I fall short on the other 360 days of the year. <\/p>\n<p>But she pulled out &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000H3P9HY\/beliefnet\">The Voyage of the Micronauts: A Book About the Human Body<\/a>.&#8221; I don\u2019t know where the book came from, but it&#8217;s about four microscopic freaky-looking aliens from the planet Xeno who land on an eight-year-old soccer player named Freddy. They tour the outside and inside of Freddy&#8217;s body. With each voyage to a new organ I couldn&#8217;t help but be fascinated by our human body and all its functions: how a knee scrape heals itself, how we sweat to cool down, how food gets digested, and how messages are sent to the brain. 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