{"id":2011,"date":"2015-09-10T01:41:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T06:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2015-08-29T08:44:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T13:44:48","slug":"the-aspirin-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/09\/the-aspirin-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aspirin Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m caught in the aspirin illusion yet again. When will I learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The suppression of pain instead of the eradication of the disease for which the pain is a warning. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/General-Principles-Systems-Design-Weinberg\/dp\/0932633072\">Gerald M. Weinberg<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is my story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I had headaches in the mornings. I took Excedrin extra strength, migraine, etc. which is aspirin, acetaminophen, and caffeine. I did this for years, perhaps 15 to 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>And one day I discovered that I had headaches because I was dehydrated. All I had to do&#8230;was drink more in the evenings and this eliminated 95% of headaches.<\/p>\n<p>How stupid was I???? I was suffering from the aspirin illusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I&#8217;m caught in the aspirin illusion yet again. When will I learn? The suppression of pain instead of the eradication of the disease for which the pain is a warning. Gerald M. Weinberg Here is my story&#8230; I had headaches in the mornings. I took Excedrin extra strength, migraine, etc. which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,113,33],"tags":[171,225,155],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-clarity","category-health","tag-adapting","tag-clarity","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}