{"id":699,"date":"2004-08-18T21:07:42","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T21:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/blood-pressure\/"},"modified":"2004-08-18T21:07:42","modified_gmt":"2004-08-18T21:07:42","slug":"blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to the quack this morning to follow up on some surgery I&#8217;ve been expecting for months. While I was there he checked my chest (at my request &#8211; I&#8217;m a martyr to mucus), then checked my heart, and then my blood pressure, and then looked worried. He did his best to reassure me that everything was ok, which considering I  hadn&#8217;t considered anything wouldn&#8217;t be ok, got me worried. Now I&#8217;ve got to have a blood test and go back to see him next week. Arses. What I forgot to tell him was that last night I&#8217;d drunk a lot more than usual.<br \/>\nYou see the Hobgoblin has new management and Brodie came up for an &#8220;official visit&#8221; to introduce his old regulars (before&#8230;.the troubles) to the new guvnor.<br \/>\nNeedless to say it was very fun and very Guiness&#8230;<br \/>\nWork&#8217;s been pretty good recently. Maybe that&#8217;s because of the excitement about the new project&#8230;but maybe it&#8217;s just because there&#8217;s so few people about I&#8217;m not getting called all the bloody time&#8230;in fact, that&#8217;s it. It&#8217;s quiet, so I can work. Simple really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to the quack this morning to follow up on some surgery I&#8217;ve been expecting for months. While I was there he checked my chest (at my request &#8211; I&#8217;m a martyr to mucus), then checked my heart, and then my blood pressure, and then looked worried. He did his best to reassure me that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}