{"id":554,"date":"2015-02-03T20:29:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T04:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=554"},"modified":"2015-02-03T20:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T04:29:44","slug":"coughed-and-choked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/02\/03\/coughed-and-choked\/","title":{"rendered":"Coughed and Choked&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coughed and choked and gagged until 5:30AM last night when I finally was able to fall asleep.\u00a0 This virus is really getting old.\u00a0 I had been on Pseudofed, Chlortimetron, and Robotussin DM generic knock-off&#8217;s 24&#215;7, but today tried going without the Pseudofed and Chlortimetron to so as not to try myself out so much and hopefully expel some of this crud.\u00a0 And while it did result in copious amounts of green goo, I still feel all stuffed up, terrible, and have between no voice and an intermittent frog voice.<\/p>\n<p>I believe somehow there has to be some greater good that comes from this.\u00a0 I try to remind myself that it&#8217;s only transient, but a month into it that gets harder to believe.\u00a0 Job, I am not.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny sometimes how we can think we&#8217;re on the top of the food chain, and then some thing that is so small we can&#8217;t even see it comes around and devours us.\u00a0 Reminds me of Fat Bastard, I&#8217;m bigger than you, I&#8217;m higher on the food chain, get in my belly!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I can&#8217;t help but think these cold viruses are created in the labs owned by the companies that produce the non-working cold remedies to boost sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coughed and choked and gagged until 5:30AM last night when I finally was able to fall asleep.\u00a0 This virus is really getting old.\u00a0 I had been on Pseudofed, Chlortimetron, and Robotussin DM generic knock-off&#8217;s 24&#215;7, but today tried going without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/02\/03\/coughed-and-choked\/\">Continue reading <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-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}