{"id":1037,"date":"2008-11-21T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T01:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2009-09-25T22:41:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T06:41:24","slug":"hard-to-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"Hard to Swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime this morning, I awoke very thirsty.  I opened-up a bottle of tea that I had by my bed, and gulped some down.  My lower esophageal sphincter &mdash; the valve between the esophagus and the stomach &mdash; suddenly started spasming, and hurt as if I had swallowed something relatively large and inelastic.  I don't recall previously having that experience from drinking <em>liquid<\/em> (and tepid liquid at that).<\/p> <p>At this point, several hours later, I'm still aware of a low-level discomfort there. (And it truly hurts when I laugh.) I think of food warily.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometime this morning, I awoke very thirsty. I opened-up a bottle of tea that I had by my bed, and gulped some down. My lower esophageal sphincter &mdash; the valve between the esophagus and the stomach &mdash; suddenly started spasming, and hurt as if I had swallowed something relatively large and inelastic. I don't recall [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[449],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-public","tag-mortal-shells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}