{"id":15635,"date":"2021-08-05T19:36:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15635"},"modified":"2021-08-05T19:36:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:36:24","slug":"dispatch-from-the-sickbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15635","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch from the sickbed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=aGDZc9bdUZM\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I am not well.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This goes without saying when it comes to my emotional health, but the malaise has spread to my mortal coil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m at an age when digestive complaints are more the rule than the exception. But when my latest discomfort turned out to be the equal and opposite problem from my usual torments, I grew concerned. Once I\u2019d dosed myself and, shall we say, eliminated the problem, I was left utterly enervated. No energy. Even more alarmingly, I had little appetite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I did a web search for DELTA VARIANT SYMPTOMS, of course. But whatever I\u2019ve got doesn\u2019t sound like that. I\u2019m hoping things will be better tomorrow. I had a reasonable supper tonight, and enjoyed it, but found in my heart no desire for further snacks. That\u2019s not normal. I\u2019m running out of groceries and need to go to the store, but I lack motivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would be nice if the indifference to food lingered on, became my new normal. As long as the stomach cramps don\u2019t come back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve shared the clip above before. It\u2019s Motown group The Toys, singing <em>A Lover\u2019s Concerto<\/em>, from 1965. I just like it. Driving around in my loaner car, which has no working radio, I\u2019ve been reduced to singing to myself for entertainment. Last Sunday on the trip to Kenyon, I was working on this one. I\u2019ve always been good at remembering song lyrics and poems, but if I neglect them for a while, bits of the lines slough off. But I went over them enough times to reconstruct them, pretty close. It gave me something to do besides pondering my mortality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not well. This goes without saying when it comes to my emotional health, but the malaise has spread to my mortal coil. I\u2019m at an age when digestive complaints are more the rule than the exception. But when my latest discomfort turned out to be the equal and opposite problem from my usual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15635\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dispatch from the sickbed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[64,1183],"class_list":["post-15635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-uncategorized","tag-a-lovers-concerto","tag-health"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15637,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15635\/revisions\/15637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}