{"id":2887,"date":"2021-11-25T08:41:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T15:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:06","slug":"giving-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2021\/11\/25\/giving-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/give-thanks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/give-thanks-1024x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"423\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2888\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a difficult time for me right now, but I wanted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/cartoons\/2021\/nov\/23\/give-thanks\/5166\/\">give thanks<\/a> to every single person on Earth who is vaccinated.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For anyone who wants to know or cares, I received the Moderna vaccine in February and March 2021. I received my Moderna booster in October, four days after it was available.<\/p>\n<p>I would like the world to not have to worry about this anymore, but, unfortunately, too many people will not listen. Selfishly, this is doing my head in because 1) I&#8217;m tired of being rational and calmly explaining why the vaccine is safe and effective and 2) I want to travel again. Traveling does a world of good for me and helps ease my PTSD symptoms. I haven&#8217;t been able to do that now for two years and it is likely I won&#8217;t be able to do it again next year. I really want to say, &#8220;Fuck you, you selfish prick,&#8221; to people who refuse to get the vaccine, but I&#8217;m still trying to understand why people think like this and I&#8217;m still trying to be a better person.<\/p>\n<p>Also, true medical exemptions are rare and there should never be religious exemptions to any vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Again, to all of you who have received your vaccine, this person with underlying medical conditions thanks you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a difficult time for me right now, but I wanted to give thanks to every single person on Earth who is vaccinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[107,378],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-covid-19","tag-travel"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}