{"id":5982,"date":"2019-11-05T07:46:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T05:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=5982"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T05:47:10","slug":"low-cost-hearing-aids-for-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/05\/low-cost-hearing-aids-for-developing-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-cost hearing aids for people in developing countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just heard about this project on the BBC News this morning. &#8220;According to non-profit organisation World Wide Hearing, fewer than one in 40 people who need hearing aids in developing countries can afford them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2222107-hearing-aid-uses-3d-printed-parts-and-costs-less-than-a-dollar\/#ixzz64NZq4yh3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/hearing_aid.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5983\" width=\"640\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/hearing_aid.png 640w, https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/hearing_aid-300x286.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just heard about this project on the BBC News this morning. &#8220;According to non-profit organisation World Wide Hearing, fewer than one in 40 people who need hearing aids in developing countries can afford them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,52,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-health","category-hearing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-1yu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5985,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions\/5985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}