{"id":8636,"date":"2017-11-07T22:39:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T03:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8636"},"modified":"2017-11-07T22:39:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T03:39:05","slug":"cold-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=8636","title":{"rendered":"Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case anyone is wondering why my blog has been sitting idle for the past two weeks…<\/p>\n

It’s a damn cold.<\/p>\n

I haven’t had a cold or a flu in years. In fact, I was beginning to think that I might have become immune.<\/p>\n

Er… nope.<\/p>\n

Nearly two weeks ago, my wife began to feel sick. The usual: a bit of a cough, a bit of a runny nose, and a fairly high temperature, actually. The next morning when I woke up, I felt perfectly fine. Until I coughed a little, that is. And it felt like a sharp knife stabbing me in the middle of my chest. “Damn,” I said to myself, “I caught it.”<\/p>\n

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And caught it I did. I was sick for many days. Something that has not happened to me in decades: I even stayed in bed for half a day a couple of times.<\/p>\n

OK, now I am on the mend. I still don’t have much of a speaking voice, I still get coughing fits, and my stomach is still a bit queasy, but I feel generally okay.<\/p>\n

My wife recovered a little more quickly than I, but even she is still coughing occasionally.<\/p>\n

I hope that we both paid our dues to the demons of the common cold or the evil spirits of the flu for several years to come.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I already had a lot of catching up to do before I fell ill… now, my TODO list looks bad enough to make me feel desperately, depressingly sick again. Will I ever catch up?<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case anyone is wondering why my blog has been sitting idle for the past two weeks… It’s a damn cold. I haven’t had a cold or a flu in years. In fact, I was beginning to think that I might have become immune. Er… nope. Nearly two weeks ago, my wife began to feel […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-personal","category-29-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8641,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions\/8641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}