{"id":2800,"date":"2021-08-26T17:51:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2021-08-26T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:51:45","slug":"gathering-the-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/08\/26\/gathering-the-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Gathering the miles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Relatively busy walking day today. Found these white shoots this morning &#8211; maybe they area a fungus&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSC_0465.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSC_0465.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSC_0465-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/DSC_0465-768x471.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID hasn&#8217;t gone away. A hundred people are dying each day. Are we being encouraged to think it&#8217;s their fault &#8211; for being weak &#8211; or not getting vaccinated? It&#8217;s not. I still think it&#8217;s right to be vaccinated. But I also think it&#8217;s right to wear a mask in confined public spaces &#8211; not for ourselves, but to protect others from our infections. And plenty of people are not doing this. Their selfishness is part of the problem. But there&#8217;s also a question behind this &#8211; an infection that kills a hundred or two each day sounds like winter flu &#8211; and we have traditionally accepted those losses: should we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatively busy walking day today. Found these white shoots this morning &#8211; maybe they area a fungus&#8230; COVID hasn&#8217;t gone away. A hundred people are dying each day. Are we being encouraged to think it&#8217;s their fault &#8211; for being weak &#8211; or not getting vaccinated? It&#8217;s not. I still think it&#8217;s right to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/08\/26\/gathering-the-miles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gathering the miles&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}