{"id":12840,"date":"2014-10-23T22:05:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T02:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/?p=12840"},"modified":"2014-10-23T22:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T02:05:59","slug":"friday-im-lovesick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/23\/friday-im-lovesick\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday I&#8217;m lovesick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In nursing the Poet these past few days through a nasty bout of bronchitis, I managed to contract something that makes me cough half as much as she does, yet sound immeasurably worse while doing so. My first thought was to sleep long enough that I woke up feeling great.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the rest-can-cure-all-things-except-internal-bleeding course of treatment has not worked since my twenties. And really, who had time for such self-indulgences?<\/p>\n<p>And then I thought: ingest copious amounts of over the counter medication, the sort of cold and severe cough blend that suppress all the symptoms, so I may continue with my busy schedule. Yes, yes. Very busy. Of course the local drug store had an answer.<\/p>\n<p>But then I remembered the magic OTC compounds contained chemicals which made me feel like I trampolined on rainbows while wearing moon boots. Plus the liquid inside the plastic bottle either tasted like an alcoholics recreation of cherry licorice or a flavor that a chemist can only describe as blue.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m thinking I don&#8217;t know, maybe I could just&#8230;go to a doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In nursing the Poet these past few days through a nasty bout of bronchitis, I managed to contract something that makes me cough half as much as she does, yet sound immeasurably worse while doing so. My first thought was to sleep long enough that I woke up feeling great. Sadly, the rest-can-cure-all-things-except-internal-bleeding course of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12841,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions\/12841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}