{"id":261,"date":"2012-01-10T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2012-01-10T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T14:20:43","slug":"must-be-the-other-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/must-be-the-other-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Must be the *other* flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;just a cough&#8221; illness turned into a full-fledged flu-like disease, complete with fever, chills and both chest and nasal congestion.\u00a0 It seems like the flu to me, but as I received a flu shot this year it has to be just a cold, right?\u00a0 But how can I tell the difference?\u00a0 If I could look at the virus under an electron microscope, could I tell?\u00a0 Could anyone?<\/p>\n<p>If the flu and the common cold are so similar, why is it possible to vaccinate against the flu but not against the cold?<\/p>\n<p>And why does the flu make me talk like Andy Rooney?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;just a cough&#8221; illness turned into a full-fledged flu-like disease, complete with fever, chills and both chest and nasal congestion.\u00a0 It seems like the flu to me, but as I received a flu shot this year it has to be just a cold, right?\u00a0 But how can I tell the difference?\u00a0 If I could &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/must-be-the-other-flu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-4d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}