{"id":5458,"date":"2016-07-10T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2016-07-10T09:20:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T14:20:04","slug":"head-cold-and-the-glories-of-hot-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5458","title":{"rendered":"Head cold and the glories of hot water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Yesterday:\u00a0 run\/walk 6 miles]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been feeling a bit out-of-sorts since we arrived back home from our trip to Atlanta last week.\u00a0 I even took a bit of time off because of it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, yesterday it came down hard as a head cold.\u00a0 My face is all stuffed up.\u00a0 My ears are ringing.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sneezing and carrying on.\u00a0 So far I&#8217;m not coughing much, for which I am thankful.<\/p>\n<p>My wife is having the same symptoms.\u00a0 So we think maybe we got breathed on by the same people in Atlanta.\u00a0 Maybe there was something in the air at a restaurant or the hotel?<\/p>\n<p>I slept in the guest room last night so that my sneezing and her coughing wouldn&#8217;t keep both of us awake.\u00a0 And I took some Nyquil which does a good job of knocking me out for a few hours.\u00a0 I think we both actually slept pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I am sipping hot water.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t do caffeine, so tea and coffee are out.\u00a0 I guess I could make some hot lemonade.\u00a0 But hot water does the job.\u00a0 I can just sip it and it soothes my throat and gets the nose feeling a bit better.\u00a0\u00a0 Back when I used to work in the office I could get hot water from a tap on the Bunn coffee machine.\u00a0 But now I microwave it in a 2-cup pyrex measuring cup.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll miss going to church.\u00a0 I missed last week because of the travel and now again this week. I can tell when I&#8217;ve missed church on Sunday.\u00a0 About Thursday I start to get grouchy and irritable, really not much fun to be around.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if other people notice it, but I do.\u00a0\u00a0 (So you all should be happy that I go to church so often, maybe you can be civil without it, but not me.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Yesterday:\u00a0 run\/walk 6 miles] I&#8217;ve been feeling a bit out-of-sorts since we arrived back home from our trip to Atlanta last week.\u00a0 I even took a bit of time off because of it. Well, yesterday it came down hard as a head cold.\u00a0 My face is all stuffed up.\u00a0 My ears are ringing.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sneezing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5459,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions\/5459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}