{"id":7803,"date":"2015-03-04T21:25:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T02:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=7803"},"modified":"2015-03-01T21:42:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T02:42:36","slug":"cholesterol-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=7803","title":{"rendered":"Cholesterol Numbers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of years ago, my cholesterol was 201.\u00a0 But, the Alchemists wanted a number 200 or below.\u00a0 So, they put me on medications.<\/p>\n<p>After trying a half dozen different drugs over several years, they finally found one that reduced my cholesterol with out causing muscle pain. And, everyone was happy.<\/p>\n<p>But then one day, I went to renew my prescription and was told that my insurance no longer covered that drug.\u00a0 When I went to my doctor to find out what had happened, I was told that my cholesterol numbers were no longer important as long was I was taking a cholesterol mediation.<\/p>\n<p>So, my cholesterol numbers are not important as long as I keep sending money to the drug companies.\u00a0 I wonder if I can stop taking the drugs and just send my money to the drug companies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of years ago, my cholesterol was 201.\u00a0 But, the Alchemists wanted a number 200 or below.\u00a0 So, they put me on medications. After trying a half dozen different drugs over several years, they finally found one that reduced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=7803\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-21R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7804,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803\/revisions\/7804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}