{"id":38,"date":"2023-06-11T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theshanty.us\/?p=38"},"modified":"2024-09-26T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T12:18:44","slug":"bionic-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/2023\/06\/11\/bionic-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Bionic Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the course of a decade from 2010 &#8211; 2020 I had 4 surgeries on my spine. Three artificial discs in my lumbar spine and four in my cervical spine. At the time of my last surgery I had the most artificial discs of any (living) human in the US (there were multiple cadaver surgeries that may or may not have more). A rather underwhelming distinction if ever I saw one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1552\" height=\"2048\" data-id=\"42\" src=\"http:\/\/theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/902348_621250987932446_547214633_o_621250987932446-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"732\" data-id=\"41\" src=\"http:\/\/theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/screenshot.1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of a decade from 2010 &#8211; 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation","category-repair","category-surgery"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"chuck","author_link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/author\/chuck-2\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/category\/observation\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Observation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/category\/repair\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Repair<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/category\/surgery\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Surgery<\/a>","tag_info":"Surgery","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}