{"id":6470,"date":"2013-09-10T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2013-09-04T09:22:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T14:22:36","slug":"flu-epidemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=6470","title":{"rendered":"Flu Epidemics."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flu epidemics are the new media hypes.\u00a0 If fact, there have been so many hyped flu epidemics that I can&#8217;t even remember them all.<\/p>\n<p>The first flu epidemic to be hyped was the Swine Flu back in the 70&#8217;s.\u00a0 As a member of the Army National Guard, I was required to get vaccinated against this flu.\u00a0 I guess it was so that we could help pick up all of the bodies of those whose died from the Swine Flue.\u00a0 But, it never materialized.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the Hong Kong flu and the bird flu and the Asian flu.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t even remember all of the flues that, according to the media, were going to wipe out the worlds population.<\/p>\n<p>And while I get a flu shot every year, I ignore the media and their latest flu epidemics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flu epidemics are the new media hypes.\u00a0 If fact, there have been so many hyped flu epidemics that I can&#8217;t even remember them all. The first flu epidemic to be hyped was the Swine Flu back in the 70&#8217;s.\u00a0 As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=6470\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-1Gm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6471,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions\/6471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}