{"id":3076,"date":"2009-10-24T13:19:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T18:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2009-10-24T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T18:19:57","slug":"h1n1-and-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/h1n1-and-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"H1N1 and Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I&#8217;ve<\/span> finally made my peace with the H1N1 vaccine and decided to get the shots for our family.  For what it&#8217;s worth, <a href=\" http:\/\/bit.ly\/J4k1c\">this Wired.com article <\/a>helped me decide to do it.<\/p>\n<p>But I have another question for you.  I heard a passing reference in the media the other day (note to self, must get over addiction to media!) to the fact that this may be one of the least-busy Halloweens in decades.  I was surprised, considering it&#8217;s on a Saturday night and all, but even more surprised by the reason for the speculation.  First, they said economic concerns may put a damper on trick-or-treating.  Hmmm, okay, not so much for us, but then we&#8217;ve been relatively unscathed by the recession.  The other thing, though, was fears stemming from H1N1.<\/p>\n<p>My first reaction was to scoff.  For goodness sake, is there no end to the chicken-little-esque panic over this damn flu?  But, the idea keeps rattling around in my brain.  Hmmmm.  Do they have a point?  Should I give all the little candy wrappers a swipe with a Lysol wipe before the kids dig in?  Am I really going to buy that far into the hype?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  Have we gone too far, or do you think this is a valid concern?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally made my peace with the H1N1 vaccine and decided to get the shots for our family. For what it&#8217;s worth, this Wired.com article helped me decide to do it. But I have another question for you. I heard a passing reference in the media the other day (note to self, must get over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/h1n1-and-halloween\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;H1N1 and Halloween&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-mothering-without-a-licence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}