{"id":92,"date":"2003-12-18T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2003-12-18T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-19T05:12:00","slug":"blood-test-o-rama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Blood-test-o-rama."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Greg helped distract me today, for which I am grateful. As we were looking for a place to get breakfast, I got a call from the hematologist&#8217;s office, asking for another blood sample. They also needed it before 10AM. My guess is that my insurance requires the lab at Providence to do the processing and so the hematologist&#8217;s office can&#8217;t do it on site. I&#8217;m also guessing that the courier comes at 10AM and otherwise my blood can sit and go bad. This is all just a guess.<\/p>\n<p>We hit the Overlook for breakfast, an old-time diner with a huge bar. They were playing loud 80&#8217;s music, and the bar looked full of customers even at breakfast-time. It was all a bit surreal.<\/p>\n<p>I spent quite some time watching <b>Return of the King<\/b> because the movie was at least 3 hours long and there were two babies crying in the row behind me. I&#8217;d recommend the movie to anyone. Well, I&#8217;d suggest seeing the first two movies first and trying to avoid movies with babies in the audience, but you know what I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Greg helped distract me today, for which I am grateful. As we were looking for a place to get breakfast, I got a call from the hematologist&#8217;s office, asking for another blood sample. They also needed it before 10AM. My guess is that my insurance requires the lab at Providence to do the processing and so the hematologist&#8217;s office can&#8217;t do it on site. I&#8217;m also guessing that the courier comes at 10AM and otherwise my blood can sit and go bad. This is all just a guess. We hit the Overlook for breakfast, an old-time diner with a huge bar. They were playing loud 80&#8217;s music, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=92\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blood-test-o-rama.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}