{"id":929,"date":"2024-01-09T07:01:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/i-thought-a-near-death-experience-would-be-a-wake-up-call-i-was-a-fool-tiger-webb\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T07:01:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T07:01:59","slug":"i-thought-a-near-death-experience-would-be-a-wake-up-call-i-was-a-fool-tiger-webb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/i-thought-a-near-death-experience-would-be-a-wake-up-call-i-was-a-fool-tiger-webb\/","title":{"rendered":"I thought a near-death experience would be a wake-up call. I was a fool | Tiger Webb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got blood clots in my lungs, a pulmonary embolism, and all the doctors could tell me was to do things in moderation<\/p>\n<p>At 4.58pm on New Year\u2019s Eve, a globule of blood lodged itself in my right lung. The heart is a pump and it behaved the way most pumps do when encountering a blockage: it strained, and strained some more, and began to break down.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, though, I found this all fairly academic \u2013 lying on a gurney in the emergency room, I had the distinct sensation my heart was applying shear force to itself and I was about to die.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Webb is a dour bureaucrat<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/commentisfree\/2024\/jan\/09\/i-thought-a-near-death-experience-would-be-a-wake-up-call-i-was-a-fool\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got blood clots in my lungs, a pulmonary embolism, and all the doctors could tell me was to do things in moderation At 4.58pm on New Year\u2019s Eve, a globule of blood lodged itself in my right lung. The heart is a pump and it behaved the way most pumps do when encountering a &#8230; <a title=\"I thought a near-death experience would be a wake-up call. I was a fool | Tiger Webb\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/09\/i-thought-a-near-death-experience-would-be-a-wake-up-call-i-was-a-fool-tiger-webb\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I thought a near-death experience would be a wake-up call. I was a fool | Tiger Webb\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}