{"id":3316,"date":"2007-09-23T10:34:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T14:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/23\/beware-of-those-you-pay-to-beat-you-up\/"},"modified":"2007-09-23T10:34:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T14:34:57","slug":"beware-of-those-you-pay-to-beat-you-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/23\/beware-of-those-you-pay-to-beat-you-up\/","title":{"rendered":"beware of those you pay to beat you up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,,2175332,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=11\">Alternative therapy for backache &#8216;can kill or disable&#8217; | UK News | The Observer<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Spinal manipulation, used by chiropractors to treat hundreds of thousands of patients a year, poses serious risks &#8230;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably heresy to say this in Ontario (&#8216;cos <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_David_Palmer\">DD<\/a> was from Pickering) but I&#8217;ve always thought that having someone smack your spine about was not the smartest thing to do. But then, my one of my secondary mottoes for life is <em>Allopathy Now!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative therapy for backache &#8216;can kill or disable&#8217; | UK News | The Observer Spinal manipulation, used by chiropractors to treat hundreds of thousands of patients a year, poses serious risks &#8230; It&#8217;s probably heresy to say this in Ontario (&#8216;cos DD was from Pickering) but I&#8217;ve always thought that having someone smack your spine [&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":[905,904,906],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-allopathy","tag-chirpractic","tag-dodgy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Ru","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316","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=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}