{"id":1274,"date":"2011-02-11T22:23:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T04:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/11\/february-11\/"},"modified":"2011-02-11T22:23:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T04:23:52","slug":"february-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/11\/february-11\/","title":{"rendered":"February 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much would you expect a bill from the emergency room to be when a little girl is there for less than six hours, no surgery is performed, and the patient turns out to have nothing wrong.&#160; The answer is <em>more than the average <u>annual<\/u> income per capita<\/em> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationsonline.org\/oneworld\/GNI_PPP_of_countries.htm\">128 countries<\/a>.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The story of Eli Cohen, the Israeli spy who humiliated Syria, is summarized in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Features\/InThespotlight\/Article.aspx?id=205609\">Jerusalem Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This prank on a Belgian phone company with notoriously poor service is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flixxy.com\/customer-service-comedy.htm\">long but funny<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI&amp;feature=player_embedded\">The Skin Gun<\/a> \u2013 this 3-minute National Geographic video shows some amazing technology.<\/p>\n<p>I like stories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/despite-us-god-works\">like this<\/a> and songs <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/2011\/02\/10\/give-me-jesus-2\">like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much would you expect a bill from the emergency room to be when a little girl is there for less than six hours, no surgery is performed, and the patient turns out to have nothing wrong.&#160; The answer is more than the average annual income per capita of 128 countries.&#160; The story of Eli\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/11\/february-11\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}