{"id":1874,"date":"2004-11-24T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T13:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2004-11-24T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2004-11-24T13:45:44","slug":"mass-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"Mass Hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a strange hunch that today is going to be kind of laid back here at work.  It&#8217;s the day before Thanksgiving break and the place looks fairly deserted.  On the other hand, it&#8217;s possible that we&#8217;ll be getting a slew of last-minute things in from people who have just now realized that it&#8217;s the day before Thanksgiving break and they need something for a talk they&#8217;re giving on Monday morning.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;m hoping for the low-stress option.  I&#8217;m coming off the tail end of another damned cold and I could use the relaxation time.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know&#8230;  It seems like half my posts are about being ill, but I know exactly how I got this particular bug, and it was unavoidable.  We&#8217;ve got a new guy in the office and I spent most of last week working with him in the old office, packing the last of the stuff up and shipping it out.  New guy arrived pre-infected with a cold\/flu thing that his three year old picked up at her day-care center.  This was quickly passed on to the two folks at the office who don&#8217;t have regular exposure to child-borne viruses.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all part of the glorious circle of viral life, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a strange hunch that today is going to be kind of laid back here at work. It&#8217;s the day before Thanksgiving break and the place looks fairly deserted. On the other hand, it&#8217;s possible that we&#8217;ll be getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1874\">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-1874","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\/1874","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=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}