{"id":1258,"date":"2005-04-12T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2005-04-12T00:00:38","modified_gmt":"2005-04-12T00:00:38","slug":"50_years_ago_jo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"50 Years Ago: Jonas Salk Conquers Polio"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/morning\/features\/2005\/apr\/polio\/evaluation200.jpg\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4585992&#038;sourceCode=RSS\">Joe Palca<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Fifty years ago, on April 12, 1955, the world heard one of the most eagerly anticipated announcements in medical history: Dr. Jonas Salk&#8217;s polio vaccine worked. The vaccine turned a disease that once horrified America into a memory.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Palca: Fifty years ago, on April 12, 1955, the world heard one of the most eagerly anticipated announcements in medical history: Dr. Jonas Salk&#8217;s polio vaccine worked. The vaccine turned a disease that once horrified America into a memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}