{"id":818,"date":"2008-08-13T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2008\/08\/3am-pain-in-the-neck\/"},"modified":"2008-12-03T15:53:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T15:53:31","slug":"3am-pain-in-the-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2008\/08\/3am-pain-in-the-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"3am Pain In The Neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 3am and the sweaty night has me thrown me awake, with itchy bug eyes and a sore throat. I am not well right now which is a drag as I have a lot to do this week. And yet, what I have to do next clearly is get well. Oh it&#8217;s only a virus &#8211; but then it <strong>is a virus<\/strong>, those devilish, evolving, clever-to-the-point-of-indestructible life forms which follow humans to our graves, and half the time put us into them.<\/p>\n<p>The virus wouldn&#8217;t have got me but for the amount of work I&#8217;m doing which is putting a strain on me. Who am I kidding that the one is not connected to the other? I&#8217;m staggering around trying to find and take pain killers and drinking water and bizarrely feeling very hungry, even though I ate perfectly well yesterday and it&#8217;s the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p>It is those phrases like &#8220;pain in the neck&#8221; used to describe stress which give it away. My neck is actually very uncomfortable and sore right now. Thank God it&#8217;s not a real pain in the arse, which would be hemorrhoids.<\/p>\n<p>Gah. Meh. Bah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 3am and the sweaty night has me thrown me awake, with itchy bug eyes and a sore throat. I am not well right now which is a drag as I have a lot to do this week. And yet, what I have to do next clearly is get well. Oh it&#8217;s only a virus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238,236,237,780],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-bah","tag-gah","tag-meh","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}