{"id":2218,"date":"2009-11-07T10:43:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2009-11-07T10:43:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T14:43:38","slug":"mauer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2218","title":{"rendered":"Mauer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>‘ve \"Brick\"<\/a>been fairly busy recently and at the height of the H1N1 drama in Canada (‘H1N1 overplayed in Canada’<\/a>), I ended up catching a cold too. A normal cold, that is, of the house and garden variety kind (@rebelalfons<\/a>): It started with a strep-throat, I ended up with a medium to high fever which was gone within 6 hours. I felt excellent the day after the fever. Tired, but excellent. If I had contracted H1N1, I’d be probably the most sought-after person in the world. That is a funny thought.\n<\/p>\n

Talking about H1N1: I’m not certain how it has been played out in the European media. Over here it felt la sort of like a panic. I agree that risk groups should take the necessary precautions, particularly pregnant women: Before the media paid attention to this, I remember reading a US article about serious infection cases that seemed to affect pregnancy and I think that at that point serious advisories were sent out to medical institutions and practitioners.\n<\/p>\n

In a couple of days, it’s\"Deutschland<\/a> the 47th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, which if you click today’s link at Google news<\/a>, details all the self-celebratory self-pats on the backs of the glamorous and the entertainerous (that’s not a word, I know). Including U2<\/a>. There’s a lot of confusion how, or rather, why the Wall fell: from my memories of the days around that event, I recall that the main engine behind the sudden rise of rallies in East Germany was Mikhail Gorbachev<\/a>. Kohl, Reagon and Bush? Not so much.\n<\/p>\n

Anyway: no matter how you turn it, the Fall of the Berlin Wall was an astounding event, but as far as i remember, didn’t affect the life of yours truly: the days after, I was probably back in school writing up exams or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I‘ve been fairly busy recently and at the height of the H1N1 drama in Canada (‘H1N1 overplayed in Canada’), I ended up catching a cold too. A normal cold, that is, of the house and garden variety kind (@rebelalfons): It … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[406,404,405,403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218"}],"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=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}