{"id":3502,"date":"2005-08-03T13:28:31","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T13:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2005-08-03T13:28:31","modified_gmt":"2005-08-03T13:28:31","slug":"why-do-men-have-nipples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/why-do-men-have-nipples\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Men Have Nipples?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blocked\">New York physician Billy Goldberg, pestered by unusual questions at cocktail parties and other social gatherings over the years, puts the public&#8217;s mind at ease in his book &#8220;Why Do Men Have Nipples?&#8221; which hits the book stores on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really remarkable how often you get accosted,&#8221; said Goldberg, 39. &#8220;There are the medical questions from family and friends, and then there are the drunk and outrageous questions where somebody wants to drop their pants and show you a rash or something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book, subtitled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1400082315\/qid=1123093883\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1\/002-5455077-8050426?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\" class=\"external external_icon\">Hundreds of Questions You&#8217;d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini<\/a>,&#8221; (Three Rivers Press), is co-authored by humorist Mark Leyner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/leisure_nipples_dc;_ylt=Ag6mssNU3Av3lTauI8HltL6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-\" class=\"external external_icon\">People tend to know so little about their bodies as compared to their cars or their laptops<\/a>,&#8221; said Leyner, 49, of Hoboken, New Jersey. &#8220;When I worked in a pharmacy in Washington, D.C., people would ask me medical questions all the time. I was just a 22-year-old cashier at Rite Aid.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/leisure_nipples_dc;_ylt=Ag6mssNU3Av3lTauI8HltL6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-\" class=\"external external_icon\">yahoonews<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York physician Billy Goldberg, pestered by unusual questions at cocktail parties and other social gatherings over the years, puts the public&#8217;s mind at ease in his book &#8220;Why Do Men Have Nipples?&#8221; which hits the book stores on Tuesday. &#8220;It&#8217;s really remarkable how often you get accosted,&#8221; said Goldberg, 39. &#8220;There are the medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}