{"id":1027,"date":"2014-08-18T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T00:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2014-08-18T17:39:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T00:39:10","slug":"als-ice-bucket-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/18\/als-ice-bucket-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"ALS Ice Bucket challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something bothering about the ALS ice bucket challenge.<\/p>\n<p>ALS is a horrible disease which deserves attention and funding, BUT.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/als.ucsd.edu\/about-als\/Pages\/incidence.aspx\">Around 5600 Americans are diagnosed with ALS each year\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. ALS is most common among persons over 60<\/p>\n<p>3. It is a terminal illness. We can improve the patients lives (and extend it), but the end is inevitable<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ALS should get funding, research. We should care for the patients.<\/p>\n<p>I am concerned about the Internet Meme. The discussion about ALS when we have so many bigger problems. Obesity, Ignorance, Racism, AIDS, Cancer that affect the lives of more people.<\/p>\n<p>ALS will be discussed and forgotten. We will stay ignorant and ill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something bothering about the ALS ice bucket challenge. ALS is a horrible disease which deserves attention and funding, BUT. 1. Around 5600 Americans are diagnosed with ALS each year\u00a0 2. ALS is most common among persons over 60 3. It is a terminal illness. We can improve the patients lives (and extend it), &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/18\/als-ice-bucket-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ALS Ice Bucket challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}