{"id":586,"date":"2006-05-23T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T13:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/05\/23\/one-day-closer-to-death\/"},"modified":"2006-05-23T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T13:31:24","slug":"one-day-closer-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/05\/23\/one-day-closer-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"One Day Closer to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although my birthday isn&#8217;t actually until tomorrow, I&#8217;ve already begun reflecting on this past year and it seems like my body has aged exponentially over the past 12 months. And yesterday was the icing on the (birthday) cake.<\/p>\n<p>I have now been prescribed Flonase. For allergies. I get to go into my 35th year with a new prescription. I&#8217;ve always associated &#8220;getting older&#8221; with having to be on medications to survive. I&#8217;ve never been a daily medication taker. And now, 364 days into my 34th year, I am.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday to me.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I do suspect that it will be a nice day overall. The Flonase should finally be kicking in by then so this unbearable pain will hopefully be gone. And Mike is coordinating a little dinner gathering for me tomorrow night in the South End. I should be fine as long as I bring my walker and heart pills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although my birthday isn&#8217;t actually until tomorrow, I&#8217;ve already begun reflecting on this past year and it seems like my body has aged exponentially over the past 12 months. And yesterday was the icing on the (birthday) cake. I have now been prescribed Flonase. For allergies. I get to go into my 35th year with [&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-586","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\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}