{"id":32736,"date":"2013-05-10T07:57:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T11:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=32736"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:44:52","slug":"a-mouse-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=32736","title":{"rendered":"A Mouse for a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tom-and-jerry.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-32739 lazyload\" title=\"tom-and-jerry\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tom-and-jerry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"326\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tom-and-jerry.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tom-and-jerry-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When I was a little kid I loved watching Tom and Jerry, and although I loved cats (I had one of my own), I always rooted for Jerry.\u00a0 That said, I never wanted to <em>be<\/em> Jerry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday, though, I saw someone had shared yet another article about how researchers (this time at <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-05-biomaterial-diabetes-treatment.html\">Georgia Tech and Emory University<\/a>) cured diabetes in mice. We all know not to hold our breath at this sort of news, I mean how many labs and research centers have succeeded in curing diabetes in mice?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For a moment I thought to myself:<em> If only I were a mouse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course I do know that a mouse\u2019s life is nothing like Mickey Mouse\u2019s or even Jerry\u2019s. Many of them spend their lives in cages and those that don\u2019t usually don\u2019t outsmart the cat. And none of them wear ties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But still, wouldn\u2019t it be nice to be a mouse for a day, or just long enough to be cured?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":32739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Mouse for a Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When I was a little kid I loved watching Tom and Jerry, and although I loved cats, I always rooted for Jerry. 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