{"id":364,"date":"2008-01-01T08:24:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T12:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2007-12-26T11:45:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T15:45:22","slug":"pulling-the-cart-or-on-the-cart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Pulling the Cart or On the Cart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re nearly a decade into the 21st Century (and <EM>still<\/EM> no flying cars), so here&#8217;s something to muse on today: Would you have survived the Middle Ages?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1247\">Twenty Sided<\/a> pondered this question a while back, and it was interesting to see how many of the commenters wouldn&#8217;t have made it without modern medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In my particular case, assuming that my father hadn&#8217;t died of that burst appendix at age six, I&#8217;d have probably made it to adulthood.  Unfortunately, I&#8217;d most likely have died during childbirth.  Bummer.<\/p>\n<p>How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re nearly a decade into the 21st Century (and still no flying cars), so here&#8217;s something to muse on today: Would you have survived the Middle Ages? Twenty Sided pondered this question a while back, and it was interesting to see how many of the commenters wouldn&#8217;t have made it without modern medicine. In my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}