{"id":91786,"date":"2026-07-11T07:39:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T07:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91786"},"modified":"2026-07-11T07:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T07:39:35","slug":"martha-lillard-last-us-polio-patient-using-iron-lung-dies-at-78-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/11\/martha-lillard-last-us-polio-patient-using-iron-lung-dies-at-78-in-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA27FLmR.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"Obit Martha Lillard\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/martha-lillard-last-us-polio-patient-using-iron-lung-dies-at-78-in-oklahoma\/ar-AA27FmW9?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=59eda24447534f99e10bfa1ca117eae9&ei=8\">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>Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/poli0.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91786","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=91786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91787,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91786\/revisions\/91787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}