{"id":76951,"date":"2020-03-14T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T14:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=76951"},"modified":"2020-03-14T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T15:11:04","slug":"weblog-of-the-plague-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/weblog-of-the-plague-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Weblog of the plague years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Communion2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Communion2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76965\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tpsaye.wordpress.com\/2020\/03\/11\/dispatches-from-the-viral-apocalypse\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Robbo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Ol\u2019 Robbo can really get behind this \u201csocial distancing\u201d thing.  Hey, I was a misanthropic shut-in <i>before<\/i> it was cool to be a misanthropic shut-in!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Social distancing&#8221; is one of the methods by which I&#8217;ve preserved my sanity through the years. With a well-stocked freezer, I won&#8217;t need to go anywhere for weeks, perhaps months. Coping with this week&#8217;s apocalyptic threat requires no changes in my behavior. At worst, I&#8217;ll miss a few meetings. That is not a problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dotclue.org\/archive\/2020\/03\/006183\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">J Greely<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Um, if all you\u2019re buying is water, toilet paper, and rice, you\u2019re preparing for a very <i>peculiar<\/i> apocalypse. What, you\u2019re gonna sit on the porch in the dark boiling bottled water over a toilet-paper stove to cook your rice as the zombies roam the neighborhood looking for brains? Relax, you\u2019ve just proven that you\u2019re safe from them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robbo: &#8230; Ol\u2019 Robbo can really get behind this \u201csocial distancing\u201d thing. Hey, I was a misanthropic shut-in before it was cool to be a misanthropic shut-in! &#8220;Social distancing&#8221; is one of the methods by which I&#8217;ve preserved my sanity through the years. With a well-stocked freezer, I won&#8217;t need to go anywhere for weeks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/weblog-of-the-plague-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weblog of the plague years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-real-life-adventures","category-virtual-friends-and-acquaintances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-k19","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76951"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76966,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76951\/revisions\/76966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}