{"id":5534,"date":"2023-03-27T19:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T02:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2023-03-30T19:38:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:38:15","slug":"medical-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2023\/03\/27\/medical-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical-alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the advertisement, an elderly woman thanks the company. After a fall, she immediately used the medical-alert device to signal for help. She is now alive. But\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t stand that thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do you mean, Harriet?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We are now dealing with Harriet and Gertrude. Real people, not women in advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;George is still alive, Gert.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harriet had been married to George for 57 years when he fell and successfully used the device.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Damn, Harriet. That reminds me of Frank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gertrude, too, had been married for 57 years, in her case to Frank, who had one of the devices also.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor David Sydney<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the advertisement, an elderly woman thanks the company. After a fall, she immediately used the medical-alert device to signal for help. She is now alive. But\u2026 &#8220;I can&#8217;t stand that thing.&#8221; &#8220;How do you mean, Harriet?&#8221; We are now dealing with Harriet and Gertrude. Real people, not women in advertisements. &#8220;George is still alive, [&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":[4958,5819,341,11783,7703,11785,956,41,6691,11784,11786,6765,2522],"class_list":["post-5534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-advertisement","tag-advertisements","tag-company","tag-david-sydney","tag-devices","tag-elderly-woman","tag-fall","tag-guest-contributor","tag-help","tag-medical-alert","tag-medical-alert-device","tag-thing","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}