{"id":1674,"date":"2008-05-15T23:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2008-05-15T23:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T06:00:32","slug":"now-i-have-pink-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1674","title":{"rendered":"Now I have pink eye."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a lot to jar me out of my usual routine and I didn&#8217;t do anything normal for a Thursday today. I got up and my eyes were glued shut with goo, and for the second day I didn&#8217;t feel good enough to go to work. But I went anyway because I&#8217;m covering for a guy who is on vacation. I&#8217;ve heard pink eye is very contagious, but the web didn&#8217;t say all that much. I decided if I just work my glasses, I&#8217;d probably avoid touching my eyes as much as I usually do when I&#8217;m wearing contacts. It worked.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed late because we had a four-hour-long meeting and I needed to do my &#8220;real work&#8221;. Plus, I knew I didn&#8217;t feel up to going to the gym.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s Thursday, CSI night. But I didn&#8217;t watch any TV. I read a book.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, at least I&#8217;m still alive to have these weird illnesses. After tomorrow, I can sleep in all weekend. Too bad it&#8217;s going to be so hot all weekend. Rainy and cold would be perfect for sleeping in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a lot to jar me out of my usual routine and I didn&#8217;t do anything normal for a Thursday today. I got up and my eyes were glued shut with goo, and for the second day I didn&#8217;t feel good enough to go to work. But I went anyway because I&#8217;m covering for a guy who is on vacation. I&#8217;ve heard pink eye is very contagious, but the web didn&#8217;t say all that much. I decided if I just work my glasses, I&#8217;d probably avoid touching my eyes as much as I usually do when I&#8217;m wearing contacts. It worked. I stayed late because we had a four-hour-long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now I have pink eye.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}