{"id":5654,"date":"2013-04-01T11:03:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2013-04-01T11:03:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T16:03:55","slug":"i-dont-have-time-to-be-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=5654","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t have time to be sick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was an Easter weekend that won&#8217;t soon be forgotten. Being sick at the best of times stinks. Being sick on a holiday is even worse. So while other families were sitting down to turkey or ham and trimmings, the menfolk here had to make due with whatever was in the freezer since I was down for the count. Over the entire weekend, I had about half a bowl of chicken soup (and not all in one sitting) and a slice of toast and couldn&#8217;t even eat all of it.<\/p>\n<p>When I was growing up, tea and toast were my go-to food and drink when I wasn&#8217;t feeling well. How about you? Do you have a favourite food or drink when you&#8217;re sick?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was an Easter weekend that won&#8217;t soon be forgotten. Being sick at the best of times stinks. Being sick on a holiday is even worse. So while other families were sitting down to turkey or ham and trimmings, the menfolk here had to make due with whatever was in the freezer since I was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=5654\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I don&#8217;t have time to be sick&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[223,224],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-holidays","tag-comfort-food","tag-illness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I don&#039;t have time to be sick... - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=5654\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I don&#039;t have time to be sick... - Celtic Connexions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This was an Easter weekend that won&#8217;t soon be forgotten. 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