{"id":6723,"date":"2012-12-28T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T20:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2012-12-28T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T20:28:27","slug":"waiting-for-a-robert-lewis-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/waiting-for-a-robert-lewis-stevenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for a Robert Lewis Stevenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re sick here. Very ill. Viral.<\/p>\n<p>Childhood illness is just not fair, especially at Christmas. The new sleds have only had a token number of runs.<\/p>\n<p>I find it remarkable that a childhood full of illness was what sparked so much creativity in Robert Lewis Stevenson. His nurse evidently didn&#8217;t let him watch endless episodes of America&#8217;s Funniest Home Videos on Netflix like I&#8217;ve allowed my boys to view this week.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny to hear them laugh at something with croaking laughs. It&#8217;s not funny to hear them coughing violently all day.<\/p>\n<p>Viruses are bad, very bad. If you&#8217;re healthy and you haven&#8217;t had your flu shot, you should do it today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re sick here. Very ill. Viral. Childhood illness is just not fair, especially at Christmas. The new sleds have only had a token number of runs. I find it remarkable that a childhood full of illness was what sparked so much creativity in Robert Lewis Stevenson. His nurse evidently didn&#8217;t let him watch endless episodes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/waiting-for-a-robert-lewis-stevenson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waiting for a Robert Lewis Stevenson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-time","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6725,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}