{"id":82,"date":"2020-03-21T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historytalks.info\/?p=82"},"modified":"2022-06-30T23:12:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T23:12:21","slug":"polio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/talks\/polio\/","title":{"rendered":"Triumph over Polio: The tragedy and the triumph!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-586\" src=\"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ironlungs-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ironlungs-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/historytalks.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ironlungs-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/historytalks.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ironlungs-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/historytalks.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ironlungs-1536x1206.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/historytalks.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ironlungs.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This fascinating social history covers the gripping drama of the polio terror and the effort to find a cure. It includes suspenseful stories of the race and intense rivalry between Jonas Salk and Albert Sabine for a life-saving vaccine; the creation of the March of Dimes, led by FDR, which revolutionized medical research and fundraising; and the lives of two remarkable women &#8211; Martha Mason, who lived over sixty years in an iron lung; and Sister Kenny, the amazing Australian nurse who developed a controversial treatment for paralyzed limbs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This unbelievable and compelling examination of the conquest of polio combines all the elements of a modern-day thriller.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fascinating social history covers the gripping drama of the<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/talks\/polio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Triumph over Polio: The tragedy and the triumph!<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-overview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}