{"id":418,"date":"2007-09-18T13:16:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T06:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=418"},"modified":"2007-09-18T13:39:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T06:39:45","slug":"are-you-color-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2007\/09\/are-you-color-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Deficiency Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image419\" title=\"color-blind-test.jpg\" style=\"width: 190px; height: 144px\" alt=\"color-blind-test.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/color-blind-test.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyemagazine.com\/feature.php?id=123&#038;fid=537\">Dr. Shinobu Ishihara<\/a>\u00a0developed the most widely used tests for color blindness while he was a military physician in the Japanese Army in the early 1900&#8217;s. He hand painted the first charts himself using watercolors and Japanese characters instead of numbers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today the plates are printed to exacting standards and used all over the world as a first test for red-green color deficiency.<\/p>\n<p>You have probably seen these\u00a0plates for the standard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everwonder.com\/david\/colorblind.html\">color blind test<\/a> somewhere, at the doctors&#8217; office, in a book, or maybe on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the scene from Little Miss Sunshine when\u00a0Dwayne&#8217;s dream of being a test pilot was shattered by the sudden realization that he was color blind?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that one in 12 men have some form of a color vision defect\u00a0compared to fewer than one in a hundred women?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uic.edu\/com\/eye\/LearningAboutVision\/EyeFacts\/ColorBlindness.shtml\">facts about color vision defects<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Shinobu Ishihara\u00a0developed the most widely used tests for color blindness while he was a military physician in the Japanese Army in the early 1900&#8217;s. He hand painted the first charts himself using watercolors and Japanese characters instead of numbers.\u00a0\u00a0 Today the plates are printed to exacting standards and used all over the world as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living-with-color-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}