{"id":56831,"date":"2024-03-13T11:29:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T11:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=56831"},"modified":"2024-03-13T11:29:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T11:29:56","slug":"iron-lung-man-paul-alexander-dead-at-78-lawyer-who-was-paralysed-after-suffering-polio-as-a-six-year-old-and-lived-in-an-iron-lung-for-70-years-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/13\/iron-lung-man-paul-alexander-dead-at-78-lawyer-who-was-paralysed-after-suffering-polio-as-a-six-year-old-and-lived-in-an-iron-lung-for-70-years-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron lung man Paul Alexander dead at 78: Lawyer who was paralysed after suffering Polio as a six year old and lived in an iron lung for 70 years dies"},"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 class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Paul Alexander, the man who lived in an iron lung for more than 70 years, has died at the age of 78.\u00a0 <a href=\"ttps:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13191273\/Iron-lung-man-Paul-Alexander-dead-78-Man-paralysed-suffering-Polio-six-year-old-lived\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\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>Paul Alexander, the man who lived in an iron lung for more than 70 years, has died at the age of 78.\u00a0&#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-56831","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\/56831","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=56831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56832,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56831\/revisions\/56832"}],"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=56831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}