{"id":2718,"date":"2020-02-16T15:16:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T22:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2020-02-16T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T22:16:48","slug":"get-the-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2718","title":{"rendered":"Get the Shot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2328\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I haven\u2019t blogged for about three weeks, but I have an excuse. Can give it to you in one word. Are you ready?<\/p>\n<p>Shingles.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have walked in my shoes, I need say no more. For the rest of you,<\/p>\n<p>GET THE SHOT!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I have been journaling. But the pieces were too whiny and depressing to share. Here\u2019s a sample:<\/p>\n<p>Day 4: \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you.\u201d Is it?<\/p>\n<p>Day 5: Am going from passable (I can bear the pain) to miserable (no way; I can\u2019t do this).<\/p>\n<p>Day 6: Trying to function in public and appear normal. Isn\u2019t that the way most of life is?<\/p>\n<p>Day 11: I think it\u2019s day 11. Have lost touch\u2014just living from pain pill to pain pill.<\/p>\n<p>Day 12: Think I experienced a turning point last night. Oh, I hope so.<\/p>\n<p>Day 16: Taught Sunday school this morning and looked sort of normal. Sort of.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but I have no profound insight from all of this. Just wanted you to know why I was silent. Oh, and I have one small suggestion:<\/p>\n<p>GET THE SHOT!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven\u2019t blogged for about three weeks, but I have an excuse. Can give it to you in one word. Are you ready? Shingles. For those of you who have walked in my shoes, I need say no more. For the rest of you, GET THE SHOT! Actually, I have been journaling. But the pieces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}