{"id":9835,"date":"2015-12-21T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/good-man-good-doctor\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T20:15:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T03:15:36","slug":"good-man-good-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/good-man-good-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Good man, good doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Ol\u2019 Doc Ranniger was my general practitioner for over 20 years until he retired. He was as pragmatic physician as there ever was. Common sense ruled his bedside manner.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">One time, as I complained of indigestion in the morning after coffee, he simply said, \u201cWell, eat some food before your first cup.\u201d No superfluous tests, no prescriptions, just some good advice, and it still works 10 years later.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">I wasn\u2019t sure who could replace him as he had such an authentic presence when he sat in the room with me. I think it was why so many of us were with him until he retired. He was likeable and trustworthy. May he rest in peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><strong><em>\u2013 R.A. Partney<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ol\u2019 Doc Ranniger was my general practitioner for over 20 years until he retired. He was as pragmatic physician as there ever was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}