{"id":431,"date":"2008-08-24T12:43:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T19:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=431"},"modified":"2008-08-24T12:43:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T19:43:27","slug":"brief-moment-of-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/08\/brief-moment-of-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief moment of panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a sore throat since Wednesday night and it hasn&#8217;t gotten any better, so I&#8217;m seeing a doctor about it in a couple of hours. Since I cannot speak, Beah offered to call and make an appointment for me. She got transferred to an &#8220;advice nurse,&#8221; who asked me several questions, including: &#8220;Any white or yellow patches in the mouth?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I told Beah to wait a second while I checked. I went to the nearest mirror and pointed a flashlight into my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Oh no.\u00a0My tongue was completely white.<\/p>\n<p>I ran my tongue under my teeth as I got a closer look. The whiteness drained away. I&#8217;m such an idiot. I was drinking milk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a sore throat since Wednesday night and it hasn&#8217;t gotten any better, so I&#8217;m seeing a doctor about it in a couple of hours. Since I cannot speak, Beah offered to call and make an appointment for me. She got transferred to an &#8220;advice nurse,&#8221; who asked me several questions, including: &#8220;Any white &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2008\/08\/brief-moment-of-panic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brief moment of panic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}