{"id":229,"date":"2008-02-14T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:29","slug":"thumb-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/thumb-problem.html","title":{"rendered":"Thumb Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Boy_and_girl_-_boy_has_an_injured_thumb.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/a\/ab\/Boy_and_girl_-_boy_has_an_injured_thumb.jpg\/412px-Boy_and_girl_-_boy_has_an_injured_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Poor lad &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Boy_and_girl_-_boy_has_an_injured_thumb.jpg\">broken a thumb at such a young age<\/a>, then made to get all dressed up for family.  He does appear to have a brace (the black in his palm), which would indicate a pretty serious break, and the lack of our ultra-modern materials means it looks a lot worse than if you broke it today.  These days, we have flesh-colored or transparent high-strength tape and carbon-fiber braces that make it all but invisible.  In the thirties, they had cloth tape &#8212; or that might even be a plaster cast.  Also, remember this farm was probably a good 5 to 10 miles from the nearest town&#8230;if they went to a doctor at all.  If a neighbor or even dad was handy with medical supplies, the only doctor consulted was a copy of the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Modern Home Medical Advisor<\/span> that came free with $10 of groceries down at the Red Owl. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(<\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Red_Album\">from this set<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-4366681809790999207?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor lad &#8212; broken a thumb at such a young age, then made to get all dressed up for family. He does appear to have a brace (the black in his palm), which would indicate a pretty serious break, and the lack of our ultra-modern materials means it looks a lot worse than if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,477,476,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}