{"id":550,"date":"2012-01-11T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aliciadaniel.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2012-01-11T11:34:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:34:53","slug":"e-d-is-the-new-e-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/2012\/01\/11\/e-d-is-the-new-e-r\/","title":{"rendered":"E D is the New E R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been noticing that on TV commercials, shows and even newscasts, what I have always called a hospital &#8220;Emergency Room&#8221; is now being called the &#8220;Emergency Department.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I have a problem accepting this change. Is it really necessary? <\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one who would watch the TV series &#8220;E R&#8221; every Thursday night in the 1990&#8217;s? That show would just not be the same if everyone had to call it &#8220;E D.&#8221; I really miss that show &#8211; it was something I looked forward to every Thursday night. The whole house knew to leave mom alone if E R was on the TV.<\/p>\n<p>It might be more properly described as an entire department rather than a room, but does it REALLY matter? I think we are taking all this political correctness to an extreme. If it works, why mess with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been noticing that on TV commercials, shows and even newscasts, what I have always called a hospital &#8220;Emergency Room&#8221; is now being called the &#8220;Emergency Department.&#8221; I have a problem accepting this change. Is it really necessary? Am I the only one who would watch the TV series &#8220;E R&#8221; every Thursday &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/2012\/01\/11\/e-d-is-the-new-e-r\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;E D is the New E R&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,20,28],"tags":[63,232,301,523,778,883],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-healthfitness","category-life","category-rants-raves","tag-alicia-daniel","tag-commercials","tag-department","tag-life-2","tag-show","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/allysondaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}