{"id":39732,"date":"2023-10-07T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T07:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=39732"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:54:48","slug":"im-calling-in-sick-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/im-calling-in-sick-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Calling In Sick Today and Putting My Feet Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m calling in sick today and putting my feet up. The Covid booster shot I got the other day has left me feeling blah. Photo and feet by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m calling in sick today. I’m not really sick, actually. I’ve just been a little under the weather from the Covid booster I got the other day. My brain has been fuzzed. So no post today.<\/p>\n

But! I have to post something so the Search Engine Gods don’t frown down upon me: In determining which websites to send new readers to, they favor sites with regular posts, so in recent years I’ve given myself a weekly writing deadline of midnight Friday, come hell or high water.<\/p>\n

It’s Friday now and I’m not up to the task. This photo of me with my feet up will have to do.<\/p>\n

(Not to worry. My knees are creaky, but otherwise I’m in great health.)<\/p>\n

Thanks for being there. See you next week.<\/p>\n

More about the microbes that beset us, young and old, at “How the Mother of Preschool Kids Outsmarts the Mighty Microbe.”<\/a>\u00a0 And here’s one from the Sheltering at Home archives written during the worst of the Covid pandemic:\u00a0 “I Need a Haircut. Or Do I?”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

One of the reasons I continue to be more careful than most about wearing masks and avoiding movie theaters and crowded restaurants is the encounter I had a few years ago with the Epstein-Barr virus (AKA mono!). It left me with long-lasting symptoms<\/a> reminiscent of long Covid. More about that at “Mono: It’s Never Too Late to Come Down With the Cool Kids Disease.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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My weekly writing deadline is only hours off and I’m feeling blah after a Covid booster. So I’m putting my feet up and calling in sick today.\u00a0 Read more.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[957,2623,2770,2086,1376,2626,2771,488],"class_list":["post-39732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-writing-room","tag-blogging","tag-covid","tag-feet","tag-mono","tag-search-engines","tag-sick","tag-socks","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49071,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39732\/revisions\/49071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}