{"id":4241,"date":"2012-09-26T23:15:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T03:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:17","slug":"wonder-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2012\/09\/wonder-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my spare time, I have been experimenting with various chemicals and compounds in my underground laboratory, and I&#8217;m pleased to announce a breakthrough.\u00a0 Not simply a breakthrough but a miracle.\u00a0 I have developed a drug that allows everyone who takes it to live to be exactly 100 years old, without disability or dementia or pain.\u00a0 You will die quietly and peacefully on the day after your 100th birthday, with family and friends at your side.\u00a0 The drug has no side effects.<\/p>\n<p>For the drug to be effective, however, it must be administered (by a painless injection) once a year, every year, starting at age 30.\u00a0 If you skip a year, all the benefits are lost: your physical state deteriorates as if you had never taken the drug at all.<\/p>\n<p>The active ingredient in the drug is a very rare element with no chemical equivalent.\u00a0 It is extremely expensive to refine and prepare.\u00a0 It costs $200,000 to manufacture two doses.\u00a0 Only 5 percent of U.S. households make this much in a year.<\/p>\n<p>Having found the wonder drug, I now wonder: who will be able to take it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my spare time, I have been experimenting with various chemicals and compounds in my underground laboratory, and I&#8217;m pleased to announce a breakthrough.\u00a0 Not simply a breakthrough but a miracle.\u00a0 I have developed a drug that allows everyone who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2012\/09\/wonder-drug\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28375,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/28375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}