{"id":8539,"date":"2017-09-28T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/28\/is-tattooing-a-job-for-a-doctor-an-infection-nearly-cost-me-my-leg-john-crace\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T15:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:51:03","slug":"is-tattooing-a-job-for-a-doctor-an-infection-nearly-cost-me-my-leg-john-crace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=8539","title":{"rendered":"Is tattooing a job for a doctor? An infection nearly cost me my leg | John Crace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese court has effectively decided that only doctors should perform tattoos. My terrifying six months shows that the stakes are highYou could reasonably ask what a man nearing 60 was doing having a tattoo. It\u2019s a question I\u2019ve asked myself many times over the past few years. The best I can come up with is that it seemed like a good idea at the time. I was on holiday with friends in Spain, my son had emailed me a design I liked and we had a few hours free \u2026 You get the picture. And before you ask: no, I wasn\u2019t drunk. Nor was I when I had any of my other tattoos.I got my first tattoo back in the mid-1980s and have added several more over the years. Some of them I still love; especially the one of my dog. A couple I regret, because the artist wasn\u2019t much cop and they look a bit rubbish. But the one I most regret is the one that almost cost me my right leg. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/sep\/28\/tattoo-job-doctor-infection-japanese-court\" target=\"_blank\">Is tattooing a job for a doctor? An infection nearly cost me my leg | John Crace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese court has effectively decided that only doctors should perform tattoos. My terrifying six months shows that the stakes are highYou could reasonably ask what a man nearing 60 was doing having a tattoo. It\u2019s a question I\u2019ve asked myself many times over the past few years. The best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}