{"id":1767,"date":"2006-12-20T17:38:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2006-12-20T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T17:40:07","slug":"thank-goodness-for-modern-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1767","title":{"rendered":"Thank goodness for modern medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time I had a tooth pulled out this afternoon &#8211; a curiously basic process involving a pair of pliers and a dentist tugging and twisting for five minutes or so. That hasn&#8217;t changed much, but boy was I glad for the anaesthetic that still makes me feel as though I haven&#8217;t got a bottom jaw.<\/p>\n<p>Not an experience I would have cared for 100 years or so &#8211; but one of course that I would have been far more likely to have to endure more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time I had a tooth pulled out this afternoon &#8211; a curiously basic process involving a pair of pliers and a dentist tugging and twisting for five minutes or so. That hasn&#8217;t changed much, but boy was I glad for the anaesthetic that still makes me feel as though I haven&#8217;t got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}