{"id":49162,"date":"2023-09-01T17:13:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=49162"},"modified":"2023-09-01T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:13:09","slug":"how-polio-paul-has-defied-the-odds-to-survive-living-inside-an-iron-lung-for-70-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/01\/how-polio-paul-has-defied-the-odds-to-survive-living-inside-an-iron-lung-for-70-years\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018Polio Paul\u2019 has defied the odds to survive living inside an iron lung for 70 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48103\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Polio-Paul-300x159.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Polio-Paul-300x159.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Polio-Paul-360x191.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Polio-Paul.jpeg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/us-news\/polio-paul-invents-new-way-30605386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">&#8220;Polio Paul&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0has defied the odds to survive living inside an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/us-news\/man-survives-record-breaking-70-29185101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">iron lung<\/a> for 70 years &#8211; but how has he managed it? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/how-polio-paul-has-defied-the-odds-to-survive-living-inside-an-iron-lung-for-70-years\/ar-AA1g54VN?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=34bbf236b9534a4f850898506bbfba84&amp;ei=29\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&#8220;Polio Paul&#8221;\u00a0has defied the odds to survive living inside an\u00a0iron lung for 70 years &#8211; but how has he managed it? Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Polio-Paul.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49163,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49162\/revisions\/49163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}