{"id":123350,"date":"2025-11-07T18:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123350\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:49:06","slug":"did-oz-mean-135-million-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/123350\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Oz mean 135 million pounds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Oz tells us that by the midterms, Americans will lose 135 billion pounds.\u00a0 Surely he erred \u2014\u00a0he must have meant 135 million, meaning that to reach his goal, we would each need to lose 4\/10ths of a pound by next November.<\/p>\n<p>I propose that we can help meet his goal immediately by all of us taking a shit at once and mailing it to:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mehmet Oz<\/p>\n<p>Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>7500 Security Blvd<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore, MD 21244<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Oz tells us that by the midterms, Americans will lose 135 billion pounds.\u00a0 Surely he erred \u2014\u00a0he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-123350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}