{"id":1771,"date":"2013-03-24T20:52:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T20:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2013-03-24T20:52:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T20:52:19","slug":"how-the-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2013\/03\/how-the-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"How the hell&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; do you manage to catch flu twice in 6 weeks?<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, the timing couldn&#8217;t have been worse. R left for a 10-day (work related) visit to the US last Monday afternoon. 36 hours later, I developed a tickly cough. By the end of the day, it was pretty obvious that I had The Flu II.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So there I am with a raging temperature feeling like death warmed up trying to look after a 13 year old (with his own chronic pain problems) &#038; absolutely zero help available. Thank goodness for online shopping. At least, I was able to order groceries to keep us going.<\/p>\n<p>And then, to add insult to injury, we woke up on Friday morning to 4 inches of snow! It&#8217;s now Sunday, the snow has receded somewhat but the temperature still remains below freezing for the most part. And I still feel like death warmed up. If K isn&#8217;t feeling well on any morning next week, he won&#8217;t be going into school &#8211; simply because I&#8217;m going to be incapable of collecting him if he gets worse whilst in school.<\/p>\n<p>Someone up there <strong>really<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t like me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; do you manage to catch flu twice in 6 weeks? Frankly, the timing couldn&#8217;t have been worse. R left for a 10-day (work related) visit to the US last Monday afternoon. 36 hours later, I developed a tickly cough. By the end of the day, it was pretty obvious that I had The Flu II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,7],"tags":[88,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}