{"id":631,"date":"2009-03-16T11:11:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T04:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=631"},"modified":"2014-02-26T09:45:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T02:45:37","slug":"blue-in-the-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2009\/03\/blue-in-the-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue in the Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blueapocalypto-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-570\" title=\"blueapocalypto-03\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blueapocalypto-03-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"blueapocalypto-03\" width=\"191\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>The\u00a0article on the mystery of Maya blue led me to the\u00a0movie Apocalypto.\u00a0I was hoping to find images of\u00a0sacrificial victims\u00a0painted blue.\u00a0 I did find some photos but was surprised to see\u00a0that the faces\u00a0were not painted.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Given Mel Gibsons reputation for historical accuracy, I am guessing there is a Mayan painting somewhere that shows how the slaves were painted.\u00a0I just assumed the faces would be blue too.<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember a few months ago when Paul Karason had his 15 minutes of fame? He is blue.\u00a0 He has a condition known as argyia, which is caused by<a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blue2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-573\" title=\"blue2\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blue2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"blue2\" width=\"168\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a> ingesting silver.\u00a0 It seems\u00a0Paul has been drinking collodial silver for the past 14 years for &#8220;health reasons.&#8221;\u00a0 Since silver can damage organs and eventually cause death its a scary way to become famous.\u00a0 You would think he might learn a lesson from the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/thehumanmarvels.com\/?p=121\">Captain Fred Walters<\/a> who had a sideshow career at the turn of the century.\u00a0 He tried to become as blue as possible and in the end died of silver poisoning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blue-9-fugates_edited-1-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-632\" title=\"blue-9-fugates_edited-1-copy\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blue-9-fugates_edited-1-copy-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"blue-9-fugates_edited-1-copy\" width=\"175\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>In my research I came across a reason for naturally occuring blue skin.\u00a0 Methemoblobinemia (try saying that three times in a row!) is a rare enzyme deficiency that turns blood blue.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The most interesting article\u00a0describing this hereditary condition was published in Science magazine in 1982 about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~kyperry3\/Blue_Fugates_Troublesome_Creek.html\">Fugate family of Kentucky<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 From my limited understanding of the condition, it is caused by a lack of oxygen in the blood. When someone says, &#8220;She argued until she was blue in the face.&#8221;\u00a0maybe it\u00a0means\u00a0&#8220;She argued until she cut off the oxygen in her blood.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0article on the mystery of Maya blue led me to the\u00a0movie Apocalypto.\u00a0I was hoping to find images of\u00a0sacrificial victims\u00a0painted blue.\u00a0 I did find some photos but was surprised to see\u00a0that the faces\u00a0were not painted.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Given Mel Gibsons reputation for historical accuracy, I am guessing there is a Mayan painting somewhere that shows how the slaves were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","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\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}