{"id":1540,"date":"2021-08-11T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2021-08-11T13:29:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:29:46","slug":"red-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Red Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-072901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-072901-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-072901-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-072901-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-072901-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-072901-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-072901-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-072901-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-072901-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Yeah, been back in the red zone for a week or more and doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s letting up. Most likely our governor is waiting until after the tourist season (which has probably contributed to our local spike since over 75% of the county\u2019s eligible residents are vaccinated) to announce restrictions yet again. Time will tell.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I\u2019m glad it\u2019s not a polio or smallpox epidemic as I imagine those diseases would still be mutating happily today given the public\u2019s resistance to vaccines nowadays. If only they had the same resistance to misinformation. But you know, the death of critical thinking and actually doing some proper digging to fact check, right? Oy, too much BORING research work and READING more than a headline or two sentences, right? Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Vitiligo, depression, anxiety \u2014 I\u2019ve already got a good mix \u2014 and only one of them can be deadly untreated \u2014 but fortunately they\u2019re not highly contagious to my fellow humans if I choose not to treat them. And at the close of my little rant here, it was dang steamy walking to the library last evening to grab a few more DVDs. We\u2019re taking advantage of the library\u2019s expanded hours although they\u2019re still not open for sit-down-and-stay-awhile use. This morning I\u2019m off to Trader\u2019s for what may become a bi-monthly stock up \u2014 because who knows if whether or not we\u2019ll be regressing into another round of the \u201cquarantine\u201d lifestyle. That\u2019s my rant and I\u2019m sticking to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, been back in the red zone for a week or more and doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s letting up. Most likely our governor is waiting until after the tourist season (which has probably contributed to our local spike since over 75% of the county\u2019s eligible residents are vaccinated) to announce restrictions yet again. Time will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red Zone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}