{"id":9389,"date":"2013-07-05T20:43:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T19:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=9389"},"modified":"2013-07-05T20:43:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T19:43:48","slug":"birthday-greetings-and-a-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=9389","title":{"rendered":"Birthday greetings (and a thank you)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 65th birthday of the National Health Service.<\/p>\n<p>The NHS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>helped deliver me. Not easy, given I had infected blood, even in my mother&#8217;s womb<\/li>\n<li>tried so hard to keep my father alive after his terrible accident<\/li>\n<li>treated 10yo me when I got hit by a car. I was in hospital for weeks<\/li>\n<li>delivered my daughter<\/li>\n<li>treated me, eleven years ago, when I had a catastrophic horse-fall<\/li>\n<li>has diagnosed and treated my minor ailments<\/li>\n<li>has been such a fundamental part of my life, that sometimes I haven&#8217;t noticed it<\/li>\n<li>is a brilliant institution<\/li>\n<li>deals with physical and mental health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I just want to say &#8216;thank you&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>To the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>To the people who have worked for it.<\/p>\n<p>To the people who do work for it.<\/p>\n<p>To the people who will work for it.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 65th birthday of the National Health Service. The NHS: helped deliver me. Not easy, given I had infected blood, even in my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}