{"id":4979,"date":"2007-07-05T06:29:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T06:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2007-07-05T06:29:37","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T06:29:37","slug":"chinese-villagers-are-eating-dinosaur-bonesfor-sexual-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/chinese-villagers-are-eating-dinosaur-bonesfor-sexual-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Villagers are Eating Dinosaur Bones&#8230;for Sexual Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article didn&#8217;t say that but you just know they were.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>BEIJING &#8211; Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.<\/p>\n<p>Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as &#8220;dragon bones&#8221; at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dong, a professor with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said when the villagers found out the bones were from dinosaurs they donated 200 kilograms (440 pounds) to him and his colleagues for research.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070704\/ap_on_fe_st\/china_dinosaur_medicine\" class=\"external external_icon\">They had believed that the &#8216;dragon bones&#8217; were from the dragons flying in the sky<\/a>,&#8221; he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070704\/ap_on_fe_st\/china_dinosaur_medicine\" class=\"external external_icon\">yahoo news<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article didn&#8217;t say that but you just know they were. BEIJING &#8211; Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers. Until last year, the fossils were being sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,40,9],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-animals","category-science","tag-myth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979","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=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}