{"id":623,"date":"2004-10-07T19:41:30","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T19:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=623"},"modified":"2004-10-07T19:41:30","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T19:41:30","slug":"a_shot_in_the_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"A Shot In The Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year when everybody starts freaking out over the flu.  The likely <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/Living\/ap20041007_1137.html\">vaccine shortage<\/a> will raise the freak-out quotient a bit more than usual.  I&#8217;m not worried because my employer will be offering free flu shots and I&#8217;m considered a high-risk candidate for flu complications.  However, about five years ago I did get a shot and still came down with a nasty flu bug that landed me in the hospital for a week.  Medicine offers few guarantees, but I&#8217;ll still get vaccinated because my odds of avoiding the flu are better with it than without it.  I know that I have to check out of this life at some point, but I&#8217;ll be damned if a microscopic strand of RNA is going to do me in.<br \/>\nWBAY, a television station in my hometown of Green Bay, mistakenly ran an AP report on its website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/10\/07\/tv_station_reports_t.html\">claiming that Bush won the election<\/a>.  The station apologized for the mistake, but does the AP know something we don&#8217;t?<br \/>\nIf you buy me the book pictured at right, you&#8217;ll be my bestest friend ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of the year when everybody starts freaking out over the flu. The likely vaccine shortage will raise the freak-out quotient a bit more than usual. I&#8217;m not worried because my employer will be offering free flu shots and I&#8217;m considered a high-risk candidate for flu complications. However, about five years ago I <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=623' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-a3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}