{"id":30380,"date":"2020-11-09T00:08:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T08:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=30380"},"modified":"2020-11-09T00:09:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T08:09:48","slug":"celebrate-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/11\/09\/celebrate-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&#8220;My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.&nbsp;<br \/>\nOur Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws<br \/>\nand not of men.&nbsp; Here, the people rule.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Gerald Ford <\/strong>during his Inaugural remarks.&nbsp; Who would have thought Gerald Ford would<br \/>\nonce again be relevant\u2026or that we\u2019d be looking back at him so wistfully?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I know you\u2019re all excited.&nbsp; But, please \u2013 STOP CELEBRATING.&nbsp; I know only a small percentage of my readers remember 1918 \u2013 and God bless each and every one of you.&nbsp; For everyone else, let me share a little story.&nbsp; Back then, we had something called the <em>Spanish Flu<\/em>\u2026presumably we\u2019d now call it the <em>Latinx Flu<\/em>.&nbsp; September 28, 1918 \u2013 Philadelphia.&nbsp; <em>The City of Brotherly Love <\/em>throws a parade to promote war bonds.&nbsp; As it happens, many people were undiagnosed with this flu.&nbsp; And so it begins.&nbsp; November 11, 1918 \u2013 San Francisco.&nbsp; After several weeks of vigilant lockdown and mask-wearing due to high infection rates back east, the <em>City by the Bay <\/em>gets cocky.&nbsp; They decide to throw a giant parade to celebrate <em>Armistice Day<\/em>.&nbsp; Precautions are eschewed.&nbsp; The flu ends up infecting 500 million people and killing between 20-50 million.&nbsp; So, keep your mask on, drink at home, and wait to celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.&nbsp; Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men.&nbsp; Here, the people rule.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u2013 Gerald Ford during his Inaugural remarks.&nbsp; Who would have thought Gerald Ford would once again be relevant\u2026or that we\u2019d be looking back at him so wistfully?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30390,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30380\/revisions\/30390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}