{"id":11585,"date":"2018-09-24T08:43:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T12:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2018-09-24T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T12:43:23","slug":"cant-get-comfortable-in-your-chair-heres-what-you-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11585","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Get Comfortable In Your Chair? Here&#8217;s What You Can Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michaeleen Doucleff for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>About a hundred years ago, something devious started happening in our homes and offices, in our cars and at restaurants \u2014 and our backs have never been the same.<\/p>\n<p>For hundreds \u2014 even thousands of years \u2014 chairs were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/09\/03\/492090626\/better-sit-down-for-this-one-an-exciting-book-about-the-history-of-chairs\">made of wood<\/a>. Maybe the seat was covered with cord or cattail leaves, and if you were rich, you could afford some padded upholstery, which began to take off in the 17th and 18th centuries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/09\/24\/649169060\/cant-get-comfortable-in-your-chair-heres-what-you-can-do?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=66139117&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9ewm4yTWq4-BitSFIN3hPcLHXdJlu3hEzaUridQpoF5budhLckpt-t28rJyBnt6WKJY5xenSQgBALMPASBguj1yOwGOQ&amp;_hsmi=66139117\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michaeleen Doucleff for NPR) About a hundred years ago, something devious started happening in our homes and offices, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11586,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions\/11586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}