{"id":29344,"date":"2023-11-29T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=29344"},"modified":"2023-11-29T13:38:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:38:37","slug":"29344","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/11\/29\/29344\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 29 Old Man in an Old Van"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Twain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I canceled a lung function test I had at the hospital today. I had too many symptoms. I do not suspect Covid but I am not taking a chance at a hospital unmasked.<\/p>\n<p>I counted 10 out of 11 that I found online this morning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fever or chills<\/li>\n<li>cough<\/li>\n<li>shortness of breath or difficulty breathing<\/li>\n<li>fatigue<\/li>\n<li>muscle or body ache<\/li>\n<li>headache<\/li>\n<li>new loss of taste or smell<\/li>\n<li>sore throat<\/li>\n<li>congestion or runny nose<\/li>\n<li>diarrhea<\/li>\n<li>nausea or vomiting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am a little thankful, not that I am ill but for not having to travel\u00a0 today. I bet Gracie is thankful too.<\/p>\n<p>Cats are fed and watered, coffee is poured. Gimli is still standing on my chest swinging a sledgehammer.<\/p>\n<p>I will try to get some work done today. I need to, even if my body disagrees, it will be cold the next few nights.<\/p>\n<p>Headaches are bad today, breathing is tough but poop is brown, thats a step up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-responsive-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZKCiC-H2Xbg?si=pSvAoeJB_znks9DC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. Mark Twain I canceled a lung function test I had at the hospital today. I had too many symptoms. I do not suspect Covid but I am not taking a chance at a hospital unmasked. I counted&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/11\/29\/29344\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saBxOx-29344","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29344"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29374,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29344\/revisions\/29374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}