{"id":950,"date":"2003-07-03T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2010-04-13T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T12:00:34","slug":"950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/950\/","title":{"rendered":"Acupuncture: a cynic writes\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>I&#8217;ve been getting a bit of gip from my back recently so made oe of my (thankfully) very rare trips to my local GP.<\/p>\n<p>I was informed that an osteopath would cost big buck$$$ or I could take a course of anti-inflammatory pills. I didn&#8217;t fancy either so I was told that the surgery offered free acupuncture on the NHS.<\/p>\n<p>I was kind of surprised that you could get acupuncture om the NHS but decided to give it a go.<\/p>\n<p>The next day I was back in the surgery with this dude slapping needles in my back like there was no tomorrow. It didn&#8217;t particularly hurt, but it sure felt weird. The things were only in my back for a few minutes before I was sent packing and I have to say.. <strong>respect!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My back has definitely feels better already, so I guess 1,000 years of Chinese medicine can&#8217;t be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>And big up my local docs for their progressive attitude &#8211; I&#8217;d much rather have a few pins shoved in my back than swallow a pile of chemicals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been getting a bit of gip from my back recently so made oe of my (thankfully) very rare trips to my local GP. I was informed that an osteopath &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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_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":[1],"tags":[230],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","tag-acupuncture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-950","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}