{"id":3146,"date":"2004-03-19T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-20T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2020-08-29T11:49:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T15:49:55","slug":"this-virus-is-armed-with-quantum-torpedos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3146","title":{"rendered":"This virus is armed with quantum torpedos."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I called in sick Tuesday because I couldn&#8217;t talk.  Then, I spent my weekend sick.  <lj user=\"benniferus\"> pampered me.  Then, I called in sick today because I couldn&#8217;t talk.<\/lj><\/p>\n<p>With the DayQuil, I can talk.  Almost.  I also feel like the world is spinning, contracting, and\/or expanding at any given moment.  But I can talk.  I&#8217;m still going to go through the entire local stock of Kleenex, with or without the DayQuil.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m of two minds about calling in sick tomorrow.  I can&#8217;t get a doctor&#8217;s appointment until Monday.  Which I&#8217;ve scheduled.  But I feel like a putz for calling in sick so much.  But, the thing is, I&#8217;m actually and what looks to be severely sick.  That&#8217;s what sick days are for, right?<\/p>\n<p>I alternate from feeling okay, as long as I don&#8217;t move too much, to feeling like I need to be dead for a few days and let this thing run its course.<\/p>\n<p>I have stocked up on my super heroes, orange juice, DayQuil, and NyQuil.  I think I&#8217;m qualified to call in sick when even DayQuil doesn&#8217;t stop my nose from flowing like the Nile.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, enough drugged ramblings.  For now, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I called in sick Tuesday because I couldn&#8217;t talk. Then, I spent my weekend sick. pampered me. Then, I called in sick today because I couldn&#8217;t talk. With the DayQuil, I can talk. Almost. I also feel like the world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-OK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6080,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/6080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}