{"id":387,"date":"2007-12-29T11:34:52","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T19:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2007-12-29T11:34:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T19:34:52","slug":"sick-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Sick Again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It never fails.  I&#8217;ve got urgent writing to do this weekend, and the diet was starting to work again &#8212; so naturally, I come down with something flu-like that floors me utterly and puts me back on 60 mg of prednisone for the next five days.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Cosmic Thwart at work.  It&#8217;s a force in the universe that targets whatever is most critical in life, whatever matters most at a given moment, and, with the accuracy of William Tell armed with a laser-sighted rifle, brings down precisely the skills and abilities needed to accomplish that thing.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been on intimate terms with the Cosmic Thwart for most of my life.  I&#8217;m told it doesn&#8217;t afflict everyone equally &#8212; I don&#8217;t know.  I probably need to go watch <em>The Secret<\/em> again.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It never fails. I&#8217;ve got urgent writing to do this weekend, and the diet was starting to work again &#8212; so naturally, I come down with something flu-like that floors me utterly and puts me back on 60 mg of prednisone for the next five days. This is the Cosmic Thwart at work. It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-play-the-game-existence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}