{"id":18883,"date":"2020-11-12T21:47:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T01:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18883"},"modified":"2020-11-12T22:17:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T02:17:37","slug":"day-244-that-would-be-grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18883","title":{"rendered":"Day 244: That Would Be Grand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I mentioned in a previous post, my parents and I are planning to spend Christmas together. But, those plans are already in jeopardy. America registered over 160,000 new coronavirus cases today, and if the numbers continue to be this bad, I doubt I&#8217;ll be willing to risk traveling or making contact with my parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m so angry, because all those people behaving recklessly, ignoring the experts, refusing to wear masks or socially-distance&#8211;they&#8217;re ruining Christmas for all of us. If they don&#8217;t stop, then what we&#8217;re all going to get for Christmas will be 3,000 deaths per day. And it could get even worse, because the virus spreads exponentially, overwhelmed hospitals can&#8217;t save as many lives, and a virus that&#8217;s spreading unchecked has more chances to mutate itself into something worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So if everyone would kindly wear a mask and keep the fuck away from each other for a while, that would be grand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in a previous post, my parents and I are planning to spend Christmas together. But, those plans are already in jeopardy. America registered over 160,000 new coronavirus cases today, and if the numbers continue to be this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18883\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[607],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18888,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18883\/revisions\/18888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}