{"id":1692,"date":"2021-11-02T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T11:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2021-11-02T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T11:49:06","slug":"a-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"A Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pa-2021-2021-103101-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pa-2021-2021-103101-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pa-2021-2021-103101-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pa-2021-2021-103101-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pa-2021-2021-103101-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pa-2021-2021-103101-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pa-2021-2021-103101-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pa-2021-2021-103101-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pa-2021-2021-103101-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday we got our COVID19 booster shots, and once again I was reminded of how priorities and values have shifted with the pandemic \u2014 in this instance, the excitement about getting a shot! The pharmacy was doing a brisk business, and while there were plenty of customers shopping for other reasons, it was heartening to see so many people getting vaccines. You could tell it had already been a very long day for the Nurse Practitioner, with little down time between appointments and walk-ins. As soon as we heard the CDC had expanded the eligibility to include those with mental health diagnoses, including mood disorders and depression, we were on it. So, all set for another 6 months or so. I am wondering if this will be our lives from now on though, as new pandemics and superbugs develop and persist around our planet. It\u2019s a small world, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we got our COVID19 booster shots, and once again I was reminded of how priorities and values have shifted with the pandemic \u2014 in this instance, the excitement about getting a shot! The pharmacy was doing a brisk business, and while there were plenty of customers shopping for other reasons, it was heartening to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1692\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Boost&#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-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","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=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}