{"id":253,"date":"2007-05-11T14:19:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T14:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=253"},"modified":"2007-05-11T14:19:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T14:19:30","slug":"episodeofhousemdcomestolife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/episodeofhousemdcomestolife\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode of House MD comes to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever seen Fox&#8217;s hit medical drama &#8220;House MD&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0412142\/,\">http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0412142\/,<\/a> you know that every installment is just an exercise in further improbability than the previous episode (a patient&#8217;s skull explodes in the most recent episode).  But occasionally reality is just as strange.  Near the end of the first season, House treats a malnourished baby whose vegan parents are unwittingly starving it by keeping the infant on the same strict diet as they are.  I thought the whole thing was a bit contrived, but apparently not.  Yesterday, Lamont Thomas and Jade Sanders, vegan parents, were convicted of gross neglect and sentenced to life terms in prison.  As always, there&#8217;s more at &#8220;the BBC&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/6642543.stm.\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/6642543.stm.<\/a>  Also if you&#8217;re interested, the episode in question was &#8220;season 1, episode 18&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0606013\/\">http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0606013\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever seen Fox&#8217;s hit medical drama &#8220;House MD&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0412142\/,\">http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0412142\/,<\/a> you know that every installment is just an exercise in further improbability than the previous episode (a patient&#8217;s skull explodes in the most recent episode). But occasionally reality is just as strange. Near the end of the first season, House treats a malnourished baby whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[90,169],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-crime","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}