{"id":49580,"date":"2021-11-03T01:46:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T01:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49580"},"modified":"2021-11-03T01:46:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T01:46:50","slug":"vaccines-make-me-smug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49580","title":{"rendered":"Vaccines make me smug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/covid-vaccines-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48752\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/covid-vaccines-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/covid-vaccines-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/covid-vaccines-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/covid-vaccines-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/covid-vaccines-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am feeling a bit smug these days.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all because of the vaccines I have received. Both doses of the anti-COVID vaccine have been injected into my left arm. I also have received the booster shot. They&#8217;re all Pfizer medications.<\/p>\n<p>So, I am fully vaccinated &#8230; and then some!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the smugness I am resisting with all my might. I am still masking up when I walk into strange indoor venues. This afternoon, for example, we walked into a church lobby to cast our votes for Princeton city council, school board and Texas constitutional amendment issues. We didn&#8217;t see masks on too many other voters but, by golly, we are taking no chances.<\/p>\n<p>We keep hearing about &#8220;fully vaccinated&#8221; individuals testing positive for the COVID virus. Neither of us wants that to occur in our house. So, we are taking measures to avoid exposure to a potentially killer virus.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the smugness I am feeling is a tough obstacle to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>I will stay vigilant against the virus. Smugness be damned!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am feeling a bit smug these days. It&#8217;s all because of the vaccines I have received. Both doses of the anti-COVID vaccine have been injected into my left arm. I also have received the booster shot. They&#8217;re all Pfizer medications. So, I am fully vaccinated &#8230; and then some! It&#8217;s the smugness I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49580\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vaccines make me smug<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[9423,9261,9559],"class_list":["post-49580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-medical-news","tag-covid","tag-pandemic","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49581,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49580\/revisions\/49581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}