{"id":637,"date":"2013-12-16T20:53:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T00:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2025-12-28T09:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:50:28","slug":"eye-for-an-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Eye for an Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has just had eye surgery to repair a macular hole.\u00a0 To speed the repair the surgeon placed a gas bubble in her eye.\u00a0 This to me is astounding!\u00a0 Could they have done this even 10 years ago?\u00a0 The advances in medicine are amazing.\u00a0 Doctors during the Civil War knew nothing of antibiotics and their sincere care for the wounded aside, spread germs from patient to patient. How could they know.<br \/>\nWhat if you had been a young doctor just following the Civil War.\u00a0 You may have been<br \/>\naware of advances in medicine that your older colleagues knew nothing of.\u00a0 How would you<br \/>\nhave explained it to them.\u00a0 Could you have explained it to them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has just had eye surgery to repair a macular hole.\u00a0 To speed the repair the surgeon placed a gas bubble in her eye.\u00a0 This to me is astounding!\u00a0 Could they have done this even 10 years ago?\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=637\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}