{"id":16700,"date":"2025-02-21T18:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=16700"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:35:46","slug":"this-stuttering-boy-first-saw-a-toilet-flush-at-5-at-66-hes-a-millionaire-tv-host-devoted-family-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=16700","title":{"rendered":"This Stuttering Boy First Saw a Toilet Flush at 5 \u2014 At 66, He\u2019s a Millionaire TV Host &#038; Devoted Family Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us bear a small, round scar on our upper arm\u2014a lasting trace of the smallpox vaccine, a common experience before the 1970s. This vaccine used live Vaccinia virus to trigger an immune response against the deadly Variola virus, which caused smallpox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter receiving the shot, blisters appear at the injection site, which eventually heal and leave a circular scar,\u201d says the original article.<\/p>\n<p>The scars are visible because each needle prick delivered a bit of the vaccine, causing blisters. The injection site swells briefly after the shot, then returns to normal. But 6 to 8 weeks later, a lump forms, resembling a mosquito bite, which grows into a tumor. It later opens, oozes fluid, and becomes an ulcer, eventually healing into a scar that lasts forever.<\/p>\n<p>Smallpox was eradicated in most of the Western world by the early 1970s, and vaccinations ceased in the 1980s due to a lack of exposure to the Variola virus. The scar remains as a historical reminder of a once-dangerous disease.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_7324.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16701\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us bear a small, round scar on our upper arm\u2014a lasting trace of the smallpox vaccine, a common experience before the 1970s. This vaccine used&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16703,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16700\/revisions\/16703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}