{"id":44,"date":"2008-12-12T13:16:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T12:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=44"},"modified":"2008-12-12T13:16:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T12:16:56","slug":"i-was-going-to-write-something-sensible-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2008\/12\/12\/i-was-going-to-write-something-sensible-here\/","title":{"rendered":"I was going to write something sensible here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but, while waiting for the announcement of the Manchester Congestion Charge vote, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsvote.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/7779024.stm\">I happened across this story<\/a>.\u00a0 It made me wince.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, penis-crush injuries from falling toilet seats are no laughing matter.\u00a0 No, no, no.<\/p>\n<p>Nor will I laugh at the suggestion &#8211; apparently made in earnest &#8211; that certain toilet seats should be banned from households with younger boys.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s important that we don&#8217;t get distracted by cholera in Zimbabwe, teenage pregnancy, obesity, heart disease, the hundreds of millions who lack clean water and sanitation, malaria, AIDS\u00a0and all the other flim-flam.\u00a0 We need more people to concentrate on the REALLY serious issues.<\/p>\n<p>Like falling toilet seats.<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but, while waiting for the announcement of the Manchester Congestion Charge vote, I happened across this story.\u00a0 It made me wince. Of course, penis-crush injuries from falling toilet seats are no laughing matter.\u00a0 No, no, no. Nor will I laugh at the suggestion &#8211; apparently made in earnest &#8211; that certain toilet seats should [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2008\/12\/12\/i-was-going-to-write-something-sensible-here\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-wtf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}