{"id":4569,"date":"2005-07-22T21:16:01","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T21:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2005-07-22T21:16:01","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T21:16:01","slug":"evel_knievel_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4569","title":{"rendered":"Evel Knievel and IPF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Billings Gazette has an article up about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billingsgazette.com\/index.php?id=1&amp;display=rednews\/2005\/07\/21\/build\/state\/47-evel-knievel.inc\">Evel Knievel has Ideopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>TWIN FALLS, Idaho &#8211; Evel Knievel may have finally met his match. And he&#8217;s not going to clear this hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned for his death-defying stunts, Knievel has now landed in major medical trouble. He says his doctors give him three to five years to live.<\/p>\n<p>Knievel suffers from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that scars the lungs, replacing the air sacs with scar tissue. As the scars form, the tissue becomes thicker, reducing the lung&#8217;s ability to absorb oxygen. There is no cure. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billingsgazette.com\/index.php?id=1&amp;display=rednews\/2005\/07\/21\/build\/state\/47-evel-knievel.inc\">BillingsGazette.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s sending my best, it&#8217;s a horrible disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Billings Gazette has an article up about how Evel Knievel has Ideopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)&#8230;.  Knievel suffers from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that scars the lungs, replacing the air sacs with scar tissue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}