{"id":1209,"date":"2009-01-15T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2009-01-15T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T17:15:09","slug":"cold-colder-coldest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"cold, colder, coldest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I got up, showered with Matt, and got dressed. Instead of putting on jeans, though, I donned my warm pajama bottoms, called work, and went back to bed. I got up again at 9:30 for a do-over. It&#8217;s -20 outside, so that was the smartest thing I&#8217;ve managed today.<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking I&#8217;m getting better, then I wake up wanting to die again. It&#8217;s fully in my lungs now, and let me tell you: the stuff I&#8217;m coughing up could audition as extras if they make another <em>Alien<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"dayquil\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3360\/3198773595_12992608be.jpg?v=1232039244\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Mary and I took a field trip upstairs to visit the polar bear and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queen_of_subtle\/3197461392\/in\/set-72157612035058344\/\" target=\"_blank\">take pictures<\/a>. I&#8217;d totally forgotten the part about how he was shot by a purported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queen_of_subtle\/3196617855\/in\/set-72157610531268109\/\" target=\"_blank\">mafia guy<\/a>. That is <em>awesome<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Also yesterday, I found out that someone actually <a href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/puerto-vallarta-mexico\/tuesday-5132008-dune-buggies\/#comment-325\" target=\"_blank\">died on the dune buggy excursion<\/a> we took in Mexico. And here I was thinking it was just a credit card scam. That&#8217;s really sad, though not the least bit surprising. Here&#8217;s hoping we can get the word out to other travelers so the same doesn&#8217;t happen to them. We&#8217;ve all left reviews on TripAdvisor&#8230; any other suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I got up, showered with Matt, and got dressed. Instead of putting on jeans, though, I donned my warm pajama bottoms, called work, and went back to bed. I got up again at 9:30 for a do-over. It&#8217;s -20 outside, so that was the smartest thing I&#8217;ve managed today. I keep thinking I&#8217;m &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=1209\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,21,23,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-scam","category-sick","category-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-jv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}