{"id":4104,"date":"2020-08-22T01:30:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T01:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2020-08-22T01:30:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T01:30:50","slug":"sick-in-time-for-the-weekend-could-be-worse-or-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/sick-in-time-for-the-weekend-could-be-worse-or-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick in Time for the Weekend: Could be Worse, or Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/the-masked-minnesotan\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20200519ff\/20200610-TheMaskedMinnesotan-DSC08818-658.JPG?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The situation could be worse. I&#8217;m home, and don&#8217;t feel all <strong>that<\/strong> sick.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, averaging the Minnesota Department of Health and Mayo Clinic Self-Assessment services, I&#8217;m either just below needing to check with a doctor. Or just above the &#8216;get medical advice&#8217; threshold.<\/p>\n<p>Again, it could be worse.<\/p>\n<p>And it could be better.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve talked about this sort of thing before.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/covid-19-and-minnesota-masks\/\">COVID-19 and Minnesota Masks<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(July 23, 2020)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/back-at-mass\/\">Back at Mass<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(July 19, 2020)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/the-masked-minnesotan\/\">The Masked Minnesotan<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(June 12, 2020)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/pandemic-perspectives\/\">Pandemic Perspectives<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(March 31, 2020 )<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/mass-suspended-covid-19-and-the-common-good\/\">Mass Suspended: COVID-19 and the Common Good<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(March 17, 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The situation could be worse. I&#8217;m home, and don&#8217;t feel all that sick. On the other hand, averaging the Minnesota Department of Health and Mayo Clinic Self-Assessment services, I&#8217;m either just below needing to check with a doctor. Or just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/sick-in-time-for-the-weekend-could-be-worse-or-better\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,192],"tags":[199,200,8,194],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discursive-detours","category-journal","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-health","tag-minnesota"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-14c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}