{"id":5130,"date":"2011-12-29T23:32:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T07:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2011-12-29T23:32:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T07:32:29","slug":"lifes-not-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5130","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s not fair."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our family never did celebrate Xmas that much (not being Xtians) and nowadays I really only get gifts for my sister and brother-in-law and don&#8217;t expect all that much either. I did get myself a bit of a present this month when I got a new car, and I also got a t-shirt and some really good cookies. But what I really got on Xmas day was a fever, chills, and diarrhea. I suppose the true gift was that I didn&#8217;t get the vomiting that a lot of my co-workers said they also got. The fever broke in 36 hours, but five days later I&#8217;m still not seeing any normalcy in my digestive system. I even had to call the doctor for a prescription for anti-diarrheal medication because the spaghetti last night made me wake up every hour or so to go to the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it. I have had fairly bad diarrhea for five days. I&#8217;ve eaten almost nothing in that time. AND I HAVEN&#8217;T LOST ANY WEIGHT. I&#8217;m taking this to mean that I&#8217;m not dehydrating, and I hope I&#8217;m right. One of the only gifts I got for Xmas (the cookies) are probably going to be thrown out because I can&#8217;t eat anything solid. (Who am I kidding? I&#8217;ll eat them even if they get stale.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and while I shouldn&#8217;t be worried about mileage on a brand-new car, my Prius gets the SAME mileage as my old Honda Civic Hybrid. It should be about 10MPG higher, but you know how it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our family never did celebrate Xmas that much (not being Xtians) and nowadays I really only get gifts for my sister and brother-in-law and don&#8217;t expect all that much either. I did get myself a bit of a present this month when I got a new car, and I also got a t-shirt and some really good cookies. But what I really got on Xmas day was a fever, chills, and diarrhea. I suppose the true gift was that I didn&#8217;t get the vomiting that a lot of my co-workers said they also got. The fever broke in 36 hours, but five days later I&#8217;m still not seeing any normalcy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=5130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life&#8217;s not fair.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5130","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\/5130","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5132,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}