{"id":185029,"date":"2024-03-13T16:23:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T21:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/man-dies-after-living-in-iron-lung-for-70-years"},"modified":"2024-03-13T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T21:23:06","slug":"man-dies-after-living-in-iron-lung-for-70-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/man-dies-after-living-in-iron-lung-for-70-years","title":{"rendered":"Man Dies After Living in Iron Lung for 70 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/man-dies-after-living-in-iron-lung-for-70-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 78-year-old man who had been living inside an iron lung since surviving polio in the 1950s has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/paul-alexander-78-year-old-dallas-man-who-lived-in-iron-lung-for-most-of-his-life-dies\/\" class=\"\"><em>CBS News<\/em> reports<\/a>, Paul \u201cPolio Paul\u201d Alexander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ironlungman\" class=\"\">garnered a huge following<\/a> on social media, getting millions of views on TikTok as he answered questions about his unusual life.<\/p>\n<p>The medical device didn\u2019t stop Alexander from becoming a lawyer and opening his own successful practice. He also published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Three-Minutes-Dog-Life-Iron\/dp\/152552531X?ref_=ast_author_mpb&ascsubtag=0000FT0000314986OUNDEFINEDUNDEFINED20240313211321\" class=\"\">book<\/a> about his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 78-year-old man who had been living inside an iron lung since surviving polio in the 1950s has passed away. As CBS News reports, Paul \u201cPolio Paul\u201d Alexander garnered a huge following on social media, getting millions of views on TikTok as he answered questions about his unusual life. The medical device didn\u2019t stop Alexander [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}