{"id":2653,"date":"2010-04-15T20:56:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T02:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2015-01-01T09:50:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:50:17","slug":"the-sound-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/the-sound-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2654\" title=\"soothing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/soothing.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I never suffered allergies as a youngster but every year of my adult life I seem to develop more sensitivity to airborne allergens.<\/strong> At least that&#8217;s what I thought it was. What started out as a scratchy throat on Sunday turned into a full blown localized bacterial infection. I was convinced it had to be allergies because I never developed any other symptoms of a full-on head cold \u2013 sinus headaches, running nose, etc.<\/p>\n<p>By Tuesday my throat was so sore I experienced a bit of laryngitis which, if you&#8217;re a teacher who needs to lecture, is a bad thing. The worst part is I agreed to speak at a high school career opportunities day on Wednesday only to awake that morning sounding like a goose being strangled. The most comfortable speech pattern my throat could tolerate was a hushed whisper. Thankfully my colleague agreed to fill in for me (Tom, you&#8217;re the man!).<\/p>\n<p>I thought the best thing to do was visit the walk-in clinic to make sure it wasn&#8217;t strep throat, which by all accounts it certainly felt like. Turns out it wasn&#8217;t but I&#8217;m still popping the antibiotics for the remainder of this week. I still don&#8217;t have much of a voice (which my students don&#8217;t seem to mind) but hope to recover soon. I&#8217;ve never been much of a chatterbox and am usually a pretty quiet and introspective guy, but I have to admit it really stinks when you can&#8217;t talk when you want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never suffered allergies as a youngster but every year of my adult life I seem to develop more sensitivity to airborne allergens. At least that&#8217;s what I thought it was. What started out as a scratchy throat on Sunday turned into a full blown localized bacterial infection. I was convinced it had to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[155],"tags":[444,445],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-allergies","tag-sore-throat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-GN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8075,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions\/8075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}