{"id":587,"date":"2005-01-04T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T10:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:31","slug":"it_was_too_much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2005\/01\/04\/it_was_too_much\/","title":{"rendered":"It was too much to hope for."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last week of work before the holidays, I came down with a mild, everyday cold.  When I came back to work I thought it was all over.  I even bragged about how it had been a long time since I&#8217;d had such an &#8220;enjoyable&#8221; cold.  (Normally, I end up with some kind of more aggressive infection, the flu, or something.)<\/p>\n<p>That night I was up all night throwing up and had to take the next day off work.<\/p>\n<p>I still have no idea what it was I picked up, but I suspect some stomach flu variant.  I&#8217;ve never had it affect me in quite the way that it did.  Even afterwards, I couldn&#8217;t eat much of anything without feeling bloated and a bit queasy.  Beer was out!<\/p>\n<p>Only today do I think things have got mostly back to normal &#8211; since I ate a full meal last night, and had a beer, without any difficulty.  I&#8217;m also not feeling as tired from regular physical activity.<\/p>\n<p>It will teach me not to brag about &#8220;easy&#8221; colds again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last week of work before the holidays, I came down with a mild, everyday cold. When I came back to work I thought it was all over. I even bragged about how it had been a long time since I&#8217;d had such an &#8220;enjoyable&#8221; cold. (Normally, I end up with some kind of more &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2005\/01\/04\/it_was_too_much\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;It was too much to hope for.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}