{"id":1023,"date":"2024-01-15T05:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T05:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/15\/vitals-or-mortals\/"},"modified":"2024-01-15T05:48:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T05:48:30","slug":"vitals-or-mortals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/15\/vitals-or-mortals\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitals or Mortals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">At the doctor&#39;s office the sawbones&#39; assistant takes your &#39;vitals.&#39; She checks whether your blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and O<sub>2<\/sub> uptake are &#39;within range.&#39; None of this would be necessary if you were not a mortal man on the way to death. But the young assistant is not interested in trading witticisms with an old man, so you refrain from remarking that she is about to take your &#39;mortals.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the doctor&#39;s office the sawbones&#39; assistant takes your &#39;vitals.&#39; She checks whether your blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and O2 uptake are &#39;within range.&#39; None of this would be necessary if you were not a mortal man on the way to death. But the young assistant is not interested in trading witticisms with an old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/15\/vitals-or-mortals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vitals or Mortals?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality","category-health-and-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}