{"id":360,"date":"2013-03-23T21:51:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T04:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2013-03-23T21:51:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T04:51:35","slug":"doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Doctor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m looking for a new doctor\u2014one less judgmental and more open-minded. My old doctor had too many rules about how high a person\u2019s blood pressure and cholesterol should be. He\u2019s always on my case about losing weight and eating better. Why can\u2019t he just be positive? I don\u2019t need all the rules and negativity.<\/p>\n<p>His clinic wasn\u2019t very inclusive and had really old-fashioned ideas about cancer. I can understand people personally not wanting to have cancer, but why shove your opinions down the throats of other people? It should be our choice. We all have a right to our own opinions about what is a disease and what isn\u2019t. It&#8217;s relative.<\/p>\n<p>Change is good\u2014and we\u2019ve had a negative view of disease far too long. We don\u2019t need to be so narrow. What gives a doctor a right to call something a tumor? I need a doctor who accepts me as I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m looking for a new doctor\u2014one less judgmental and more open-minded. My old doctor had too many rules about how high a person\u2019s blood pressure and cholesterol should be. He\u2019s always on my case about losing weight and eating better. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/?p=360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6y6Br-doctor","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marksletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-Teckla-Mark-Mill-Creek-Falls-June-2011-3123.jpg?fit=1000%2C287&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}