{"id":822,"date":"2008-11-08T10:27:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2008-11-08T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T15:27:06","slug":"the-flu-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"The Flu Shot."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a flu shot last week at work.  They were free and in my building so I got one.  The last flu shot that I got was for the Swine flu so it has been a few years.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, you had to pay for your flu shot even if it was only a  couple of dollars.  But, with a staff that has been limited by budget cuts, I guess they want to make sure that everyone can work.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, a flu shot doesn&#8217;t prevent you from getting the flu, it only prevents you from getting the flu that the shot is geared for.  So, if you don&#8217;t get the flu, then the shot worked.  If you do get the flu, then it was a different flu than what the shot prevents.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a win-win situation for the medical profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a flu shot last week at work. They were free and in my building so I got one. The last flu shot that I got was for the Swine flu so it has been a few years. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=822\">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-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-dg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}