{"id":252,"date":"2009-04-23T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2009-04-23T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T13:31:09","slug":"the-unanticipated-side-effects-of-strokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"The Unanticipated Side Effects of Strokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>70 year-old British playwright Alan Ayckbourn&#8211;whose &#8220;The Norman Conquests&#8221; is currently on Broadway&#8211;had a stroke a few years back, at which point he started confusing the words &#8220;yes&#8221; and &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He told Sarah Lyall in yesterday&#8217;s Times, &#8220;&#8216;A very nice doctor came in and said, &#8216;Are you aware that when you say yes, you&#8217;re saying no?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ayckbourn:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think this conversation can continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>70 year-old British playwright Alan Ayckbourn&#8211;whose &#8220;The Norman Conquests&#8221; is currently on Broadway&#8211;had a stroke a few years back, at which point he started confusing the words &#8220;yes&#8221; and &#8220;no.&#8221; He told Sarah Lyall in yesterday&#8217;s Times, &#8220;&#8216;A very nice doctor came in and said, &#8216;Are you aware that when you say yes, you&#8217;re saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}