{"id":679,"date":"2010-07-12T08:36:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T04:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2010-07-12T08:36:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T04:36:27","slug":"last-two-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/679\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Two Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from my travels in Dubai and Lebanon and am halfway through writing a post about it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to be taking it easy for a few days, having had my last two wisdom teeth yanked out this morning by a Thai lady dental surgeon.\u00a0 She did a good job of it, which is completely unsurprising: Thailand has been a choice destination for health tourism for some time now, it costing a fraction of what you&#8217;d pay in the west.\u00a0 When I had the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=160\" target=\"_blank\">first two out<\/a> in Dubai four years ago, it cost me \u00a3330.\u00a0 This time it cost me \u00a3246, and they not only charged less for the medication afterwards but they gave it to you in the surgery, instead of simply writing you a prescription and hoofing you out the door in the direction of the nearest pharmacy.\u00a0\u00a0 So I now have a few days of misery to look forward to, but it&#8217;ll be worth it to be relieved of the headaches I was getting as rogue third molars burrowed their way through my skull, and it will be more than a little comfort to know I will not have to sample Nigerian dental surgery during my time over there, despite the blogging material such an experience would provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from my travels in Dubai and Lebanon and am halfway through writing a post about it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to be taking it easy for a few days, having had my last two wisdom teeth yanked out this morning &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/679\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}