{"id":2047,"date":"2009-10-03T11:02:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T18:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/10\/desert-lab-bobbles-ted-williams-frozen-head\/"},"modified":"2009-10-03T11:02:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T18:02:54","slug":"desert-lab-bobbles-ted-williams-frozen-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/03\/desert-lab-bobbles-ted-williams-frozen-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Lab Bobbles Ted Williams&#8217; Frozen Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2009\/10\/02\/crimesider\/entry5358488.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">from CBS News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Ted Williams&#8217; Frozen Head Mistreated in Alcor Cryonics Facility, Says Book<\/h1>\n<p>Posted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sections\/crimesider\/main504083.shtml?contributor=45954\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: #1968b2; cursor: pointer; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Ryan Smith<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK (CBS\/AP)<\/strong>\u00a0Ted Williams was trying to get ahead of the game. But his efforts to have his frozen head thawed out by some future generation may have come to naught if the allegations of abuse in a new book are true.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drunkenfist.com\/\" title=\"Pencil drawing of Ted Williams by ROB LARSEN @ Drunkenfist.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.drunkenfist.com\/img\/art\/pencil\/ted_williams.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"328\" width=\"250\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Upon his death, the Red Sox Hall of famer had his head severed and frozen for storage in the hope that technology would one day be developed to revive him.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2009\/10\/02\/crimesider\/www.nydailynews.com\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: #1968b2; cursor: pointer; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"link\">New York Daily News<\/a>\u00a0is reporting that his frozen head was mistreated at an Arizona cryonics facility he entrusted with his chilled cranium, according to details from a new book.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Frozen,&#8221; Larry Johnson, a former executive at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcor.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: #1968b2; cursor: pointer; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"link\">Alcor Life Extension Foundation<\/a>\u00a0in Scottsdale, Ariz., writes that Williams&#8217; head was abused at the facility. Johnson claims a technician took baseball-like swings at Williams&#8217; frozen head with a monkey wrench.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2009\/10\/02\/crimesider\/entry5358488.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at CBS News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CBS News Ted Williams&#8217; Frozen Head Mistreated in Alcor Cryonics Facility, Says Book Posted by\u00a0Ryan Smith NEW YORK (CBS\/AP)\u00a0Ted Williams was trying to get ahead of the game. But his efforts to have his frozen head thawed out by some future generation may have come to naught if the allegations of abuse in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}