{"id":3199,"date":"2021-03-13T20:14:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T01:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2021-03-13T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T01:14:16","slug":"the-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/the-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just made an appointment for my first novel coronavirus vaccine shot, a Pfizer. If all goes well, I&#8217;ll get jabbed on Wednesday, March 17. St. Patrick&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>I have started to let myself daydream a bit&#8211;okay, a considerable amount&#8211;about all the deferrals that might be possibles, even probables after Alice and I are both vaccinated. In doing so, I find myself rehearsing all the things we haven&#8217;t been able to do over the last year. I&#8217;m surprised to find how long that list has become. Some things I have a hard time remembering I\u00a0<em>ever<\/em> did. Maybe I read about someone doing things like visiting a record store, or flying in an airplane. Things like that.<\/p>\n<p>I know that caution and care will still be the order of the day. Frankly, I&#8217;m not sure I can get back in the zone of Doing Things In The World Outside very quickly even after Shot 2. But when I heard the President&#8217;s address on Thursday and thought about that Fourth of July celebration he envisioned, it felt like something frozen in the middle of my soul had begun to thaw, at least a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Many a mile to freedom, as the fellow once sang. It&#8217;ll be interesting to take that first step on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E1c0iMJMqVc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just made an appointment for my first novel coronavirus vaccine shot, a Pfizer. If all goes well, I&#8217;ll get jabbed on Wednesday, March 17. St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. I have started to let myself daydream a bit&#8211;okay, a considerable amount&#8211;about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/the-appointment\/\">Continue reading <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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-PB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}