{"id":1639,"date":"2008-04-15T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/04\/15\/out-for-the-count\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T15:08:09","slug":"out-for-the-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/04\/15\/out-for-the-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Out for the Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This cold has kicked in hardcore. I&#8217;m actually home sick&#8230;the first sick day I&#8217;ve taken in over 19 months (a record for me). I can&#8217;t seem to lick this cold (which started with minor scratchy throat while still in Mexico last Friday). I think it&#8217;s also giving me some strange dreams. Well, either that or the mix of Sudafed, Mucinex, Afrin, and alternating doses of ibuprofin and aspirin.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in last night&#8217;s dream I befriended an RV dwelling redneck. Randy was unavailable so I agreed to go on a road trip with this guy. We were playing some sort of game that was a combination of cricket and mini-golf, except that the balls were actually some sort of rodent with a hard shell. The assumption was always that they didn&#8217;t feel pain as a result of the shell. Unfortunately, that wasn&#8217;t actually true and I was actually stuck playing with the rodent that decided to fight back.<\/p>\n<p>Be warned: cricket ball rodents have sharp claws.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what happened next, but I was driving the RV down the road alone\u00a0when my redneck travel companion was involved in a road side explosion. His charred body crashed into the windshield and splattered blood everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm &#8211; it seemed much more logical in my dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cold has kicked in hardcore. I&#8217;m actually home sick&#8230;the first sick day I&#8217;ve taken in over 19 months (a record for me). I can&#8217;t seem to lick this cold (which started with minor scratchy throat while still in Mexico last Friday). I think it&#8217;s also giving me some strange dreams. Well, either that or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}