{"id":2159,"date":"2005-07-06T13:08:38","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T17:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2005-07-06T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T17:08:38","slug":"bcg-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/bcg-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"BCG, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scourge of British school life is going away: <a href=\"http:\/\/society.guardian.co.uk\/publichealth\/story\/0,11098,1522550,00.html?gusrc=rss\">the BCG injection is being dropped<\/a>. Thisteen year olds from the 1930s have sported suppurating left shoulders because of this. It was a favourite target of school bullies, being whacked on the tender injection site. My BCG scar, 23 years on, is greatly faded, but still there<\/p>\n<p>So goodbye, Bacillus Calmette-Gu\u00c3\u00a9rin; we hardly knew you&nbsp;&hellip; <em>ow, my BCG!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scourge of British school life is going away: the BCG injection is being dropped. Thisteen year olds from the 1930s have sported suppurating left shoulders because of this. It was a favourite target of school bullies, being whacked on the tender injection site. My BCG scar, 23 years on, is greatly faded, but still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[211,677],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-obituary","tag-owies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-yP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}