{"id":1579,"date":"2003-10-17T08:58:14","date_gmt":"2003-10-17T13:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2003-10-17T08:58:14","modified_gmt":"2003-10-17T13:58:14","slug":"quickly-activate-the-clich-o-matic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"Quickly!  Activate the Clich&#233;-o-matic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, yesterday I was as sick as a dog.  Or at least as sick as a specific dog that had a level of sickness that matched my own.  Headache, sweating, chills and fever.  The usual fun stuff.  I feel mostly recovered today, but my boss is threatening to send me home.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorta ok with the idea too.  My head feels overinflated, and background noises sound overly resonant.  It&#8217;s sort of like being on an inflatable raft, floating on a swimming pool.  Did you ever just lie there with one ear pressed to the raft and the other full of water?  Everything has that sort of muffled echo.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYesterday just kind of drifted.  I spent a lot of time in bed shivering, but I did get up and wander around a bit in the afternoon.  I did a bit more bottle scrubbing, since it was a mostly mindless activity.  We&#8217;ve got about nine boxes of de-labeled wine bottles ready to go once the wine is done working.  That leaves me with nothing to do if I do get sent home&#8230;  I don&#8217;t trust myself with power tools right now, so finishing the bathroom floor is out of the question.  I suppose I should just sleep&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, yesterday I was as sick as a dog. Or at least as sick as a specific dog that had a level of sickness that matched my own. Headache, sweating, chills and fever. The usual fun stuff. I feel mostly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1579\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}