{"id":2044,"date":"2021-10-10T22:45:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T22:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2021-10-10T22:45:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T22:45:41","slug":"people-we-meet-mary-leatherman-cured-by-acupuncture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2044","title":{"rendered":"People We Meet: Mary Leatherman, cured by acupuncture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wearing her mask and \u201cI stand with Chesa Boudin\u201d pin, Mary Leatherman stood outside the Lotus Center at 417 South Van Ness Ave.<\/p>\n<p>She had received a text from her acupuncturist, who was running a little late, so she decided \u201cjust to hang out for a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leatherman said she decided to try alternative medicine during menopause. \u201cI started getting horrible, debilitating migraines. And somebody said, \u2018Try acupuncture!\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She connected with an acupuncturist whose daughter attended the same primary school as Leatherman\u2019s own daughter, a fortuitous decision. \u201cShe cured me!\u201d said Leatherman, \u201cOr, I should say, acupuncture cured me of the migraines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She has since been back for navigating digestive issues, a stressful job, and a rotator cuff problem. So far, acupuncture has worked for everything.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2021\/10\/people-we-meet-mary-leatherman-cured-by-acupuncture\/\">Mission Local<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearing her mask and \u201cI stand with Chesa Boudin\u201d pin, Mary Leatherman stood outside the Lotus Center at 417 South&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}