{"id":1212,"date":"2009-01-12T19:35:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T03:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2009-09-27T21:12:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T05:12:25","slug":"bleh-pt-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Bleh, Pt II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am still fighting <a href=\"?p=1189\">the flu that I reported here on the 7th<\/a>.  The symptoms have varied somewhat, and have generally been less during my waking hours than when I sleep.  Most days have seemed to represent gradual improvement, but this morning was very wretched.  My throat was especially sore and it hurt quite a lot to swallow.  I had other symptoms, typical of a flu: headache, fever, sinus and nasal congestion, and body aches.<\/p> <p>Last night, I got some saline solution with which to flush my sinuses.  Because I wanted to do that, instead of just to moisturize my nasal passages, I needed an &aelig;rosol.  At the Hillcrest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvs.com\/\"><abbr title=\"Consumer Value Stores\">CVS<\/abbr>\/pharmacy<\/a>, the only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blairex.com\/SimplySalineMenthol.php\">&aelig;rosol saline with the right sort of nozzle for spraying the stuff into one's nose was mentholated<\/a>.  I cannot say that I enjoyed the experience of a mentholated solution in my sinuses.<\/p> <p>Also, the can had some blatting on it about <em>homeopathic principles<\/em>.  I was especially amused by the note that, since the ostensible curatives were only present in homeopathic amounts, there would be no <em>side<\/em> effects.  Indeed.  I figure that, because of the hydrological cycle, if <em>homeopathic principles<\/em> were correct, then we'd all be in perfect health.<\/p> <p>As I was buying one thing of saline to spray in my nose, it occurred to me to buy some saline for my mouse first-aid kit.  Fortunately, I didn't need a special nozzle for that.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am still fighting the flu that I reported here on the 7th. The symptoms have varied somewhat, and have generally been less during my waking hours than when I sleep. Most days have seemed to represent gradual improvement, but this morning was very wretched. My throat was especially sore and it hurt quite a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,5,4],"tags":[179,491,490,184,178],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal","category-public","tag-companion-animals","tag-flu","tag-ailment","tag-mice","tag-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}