{"id":3828,"date":"2022-01-12T17:39:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T00:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2022-01-20T12:15:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:15:45","slug":"the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=3828","title":{"rendered":"The New Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whelp, Robin came down with a sore throat over the weekend, and tested positive for Covid. He seems to be bouncing right back. He had a fever too but that&#8217;s gone, and even the sore throat is better now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile we&#8217;ve been testing everybody else, all negative. We kept the other kids home for a couple days out of caution, but school guidance is currently to send them back so long as they are testing negative and have no symptoms, so back they went today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this&#8230;seems to be how it&#8217;s going, mostly, across the country? Infections spiking everywhere, but nothing like the previous waves of severity? Knock on wood this is really gonna be what it looks like, a very soft-hitting wave of infections, that ripples and spreads and then disappears. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd1e\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/te5\/1\/16\/1f91e.png\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning I was sitting in bed playing Animal Crossing in a loose nightshirt with my hair all rumpled, and Sam came in starting to tell me something, but just broke off right in the middle of it. &#8220;You are so cute,&#8221; he said, and kissed me a dozen times all over my face. These moments are real common and I don&#8217;t usually write about them because it feels like bragging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I do feel a strong urge to write\/journal\/reach out for connection when things are scary or sad, so I should probably write about the everyday nice things too sometimes, or it leaves a distorted record. Robin has covid so that&#8217;s kinda scary, and my husband thought I was cute today so that was nice, and both things happened at the same time and both felt basically normal: this is what normal is, right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update 1\/20:<\/strong> Robin&#8217;s fine and back in school. He only had symptoms for like a day, and none of the rest of us got breakthrough infections. I was a little surprised given how transmissable this thing is, but vaccines+boosters for the win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whelp, Robin came down with a sore throat over the weekend, and tested positive for Covid. He seems to be bouncing right back. He had a fever too but that&#8217;s gone, and even the sore throat is better now. Meanwhile we&#8217;ve been testing everybody else, all negative. We kept the other kids home for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}