{"id":191,"date":"2003-12-20T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-20T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodneycornelius.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2003-12-20T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-20T11:52:00","slug":"191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodness&#8230;.I am sicker than I thought.  I am not sure why I am having a party exactly, but I feel like no matter what the outcome, it is too late to cancel it now.  I am not sure if it&#8217;s the flu, but it feels stronger than a cold.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to surprise my family in Boston with a &#8220;fly by&#8221; visit home (24 December &#8211; 26 December), but I hurt too much to make the journey.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I was so full of dayquil, nyquil, and sudafed that I began to hallucinate while I was trying to sleep.  I was kinda caught in a waking nightmare for 2 hours, with images too horrible to describe.  I was so awake I could hear everything around me, but I wasn&#8217;t able to react.  And last night was my second 100-degree (farenheight) fever in 4 days.<\/p>\n<p>My body really hurts.  No, it&#8217;s not that simple.  My <i>bones<\/i> ache.  I&#8217;ve been struggling not to pass out a couple of times this week (Red Bull has kept the heart racing, even if the body has other plans).<\/p>\n<p>But I must have this party tonight&#8230;it&#8217;s too late to cancel.  I&#8217;ll think of some stronger drug combinations from my medicine cabinet to get me through tonight.  I need to lie down so that I have strength to clean and shop and get ready for tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Talk to all later&#8230;hope you are feeling better than me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodness&#8230;.I am sicker than I thought. I am not sure why I am having a party exactly, but I feel like no matter what the outcome, it is too late to cancel it now. I am not sure if it&#8217;s the flu, but it feels stronger than a cold. I was hoping to surprise my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}