{"id":1440,"date":"2007-03-09T21:57:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T01:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2007-10-06T10:11:35","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T13:11:35","slug":"youve-got-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve got flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> happened to run into a meeting with the flu, last Monday, and I&#8217;m gradually recovering. I&#8217;ve not been sick since I&#8217;ve lived here: a feat I thought was so unique that it could have earned me a place in the Guinness World Record book.\n<\/p>\n<p>That said, I&#8217;m almost certain that the cold spell (-10 to -16 degrees temperatures) had something to do with it too. So, tomorrow it finally looks like we&#8217;re back to subzero degrees, with the additional touch of rain. Gone will be the couple of centimeters, to reveal that bunch of left-over leafs from last Fall.\n<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, or rather Sunday morning, we&#8217;ll be moving into Daylight Savings Time, thanks to the brilliant decision made by US senators. I&#8217;d like to see statistics or data on the purported energy savings for those extra 4 or 6 weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small>1. During my illness, I actually enjoyed watching videos like this (excellent) episode of the <a href=\"http:\/\/smashingtelly.com\/2007\/03\/07\/lee-smolin-on-the-universe\/\">Dutch science show &#8216;Noorderlicht&#8217;<\/a> (featuring Lee Smolin), and <a href=\"http:\/\/smashingtelly.com\/2007\/03\/06\/the-man-who-wouldnt-paint-hitler\/\">&#8216;The Man Who Wouldn&#8217;t Paint Hitler&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n2. Update 03\/12\/07: Slashdot discussion about the not-so-many-savings of <a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/hardware\/07\/03\/12\/1024226.shtml\">Day Light Savings<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to run into a meeting with the flu, last Monday, and I&#8217;m gradually recovering. I&#8217;ve not been sick since I&#8217;ve lived here: a feat I thought was so unique that it could have earned me a place in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1440\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[134,107,174,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}