{"id":3000,"date":"2012-07-26T15:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T19:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2015-06-04T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:14:16","slug":"pigs-are-flying-written-consent-no-longer-needed-for-an-hiv-test-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/pigs-are-flying-written-consent-no-longer-needed-for-an-hiv-test-in-massachusetts\/2012\/07\/26\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigs are Flying: Written Consent No Longer Needed for an HIV Test in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/07\/celebrate1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3001\" title=\"celebrate\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/07\/celebrate-284x3001.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a>Let the record show that as of July 26, 2012, a person in Massachusetts can legally get an HIV test <a href=\"http:\/\/commonhealth.wbur.org\/2012\/07\/hiv-test-verbal-consent\" target=\"_blank\">without signing a written consent.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hooray.<\/p>\n<p>There, that wasn&#8217;t so hard, was it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let the record show that as of July 26, 2012, a person in Massachusetts can legally get an HIV test without signing a written consent. Hooray. There, that wasn&#8217;t so hard, was it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9],"tags":[423,447],"class_list":["post-3000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiv","category-patient-care","category-policy","tag-hiv","tag-hiv-testing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}