{"id":6410,"date":"2019-09-11T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2019-09-11T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:21:12","slug":"being-mortal-atul-gawande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/?p=6410","title":{"rendered":"Being mortal\/ Atul Gawande"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"s-image alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/814-gmU5y8L._AC_UY218_ML1_.jpg\" alt=\"Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End\" width=\"70\" height=\"105\" data-image-index=\"0\" data-image-load=\"\" data-image-latency=\"s-product-image\" data-image-source-density=\"1\" \/>Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.<br \/>\nThrough eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-adult-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6411,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions\/6411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}