{"id":982,"date":"2006-06-09T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T14:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-dont-feel-tardy\/"},"modified":"2006-06-09T09:30:28","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T14:30:28","slug":"i-dont-feel-tardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-dont-feel-tardy","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t feel tardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on prednisone for the last 10 days, trying to clear out the ugly ol&#8217; case of poison ivy I picked up from the <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/xcavate-men\/\" target=\"_blank\">Memorial Day yard-clearing extravaganza<\/a>. The pred has left me pasted by heartburn for over a week, which is no fun. I&#8217;ve juggled the sleeplessness with some Xanax &#038; gin, which seems to be working okay, but this morning, I finally looked up all the <a href=\"http:\/\/ibscrohns.about.com\/cs\/prescriptiondrugs\/p\/medprednisone.htm\" target=\"_blank\">listed side effects<\/a> of this little corticosteroid and discovered that among of the rarer ones are a &#8220;false sense of well-being&#8221; and &#8220;mistaken feelings of self-importance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even know how you begin to diagnose that. I mean, does the doctor say, &#8220;You&#8217;re not doing as well as you think! And you&#8217;re simply not that important! This is just a side effect!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, I may also get them menstrual cramps, real bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on prednisone for the last 10 days, trying to clear out the ugly ol&#8217; case of poison ivy I picked up from the Memorial Day yard-clearing extravaganza. The pred has left me pasted by heartburn for over a week, which is no fun. I&#8217;ve juggled the sleeplessness with some Xanax &#038; gin, which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-dont-feel-tardy\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel tardy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmaceuticals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-fQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}