{"id":31695,"date":"2022-09-15T11:06:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T18:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=31695"},"modified":"2022-09-15T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T18:06:32","slug":"an-ignorant-s-o-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=31695","title":{"rendered":"An Ignorant S.O.B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Screen Shot 2022-08-28 at 8.01.59 AM\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/52316040057\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52316040057_177039de5f_m.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2022-08-28 at 8.01.59 AM\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bannedbooksweek.org\">Banned Books Week<\/a><\/strong> kicks off this Sunday. Since WordPress allows me to schedule posts for publication, I set the next You Can&#8217;t Read That! banned book entry, already written and ready to go, to appear Saturday morning. It contains an updated version of my annual Banned Books Week rant, explaining why I rudely insist on calling\u00a0book banning by its name.<\/p>\n<p>If a momentous banned book story breaks between now and then, it&#8217;ll have to wait. Maybe Governor DeSantis will helicopter a load of confiscated high school social studies textbooks from Florida to California and airdrop them on the UC Berkeley campus. If so, it&#8217;ll have to wait for a future YCRT! post. Such are the joys of trying to keep up with the news.<\/p>\n<p>My recent post about parental gay and trans panic prompted a friend to write privately. We had a friendly and interesting exchange via email, and with his permission I&#8217;ll share the high points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was obvious to him I don&#8217;t know many gay or trans people<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s absolutely correct: I don&#8217;t<\/li>\n<li>The exchange, though, brought home to me how much they&#8217;re in my life (and yours, and yours)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What can I say? I despise stereotyping and prejudice in myself and others (with a huge personal carve-out for racists and the intentionally ignorant), and thought (think?) I&#8217;ve been doing okay on the LGBTQ front, but I&#8217;ll try harder.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\n\n<p>Monday was annual flu shot day. As always, they asked if I wanted the high-dose version for senior citizens. I&#8217;m 75, for fuck&#8217;s sake. At some point you&#8217;d think they&#8217;d quit asking and just shoot it into my veins. I also got the new Covid Omicron-variant booster, and am now the proud possessor of not one but two Covid vaccination cards, neither of which will fit any known pocket in any known wallet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time since the universally-dreaded anthrax shot I received before deploying overseas, I was left with a painful knot in my shoulder. Covid shoulder, that is &#8230; flu shoulder was just fine. The knot lasted two days and nights. It wasn&#8217;t too bad when I was up and active, but when I went to bed it ached so much sleep was impossible. Tylenol helped, but not a lot. I wanted something stronger, but since I take a blood thinner for AFIB everything else is out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Need some 800mg Ibuprofen tabs? I&#8217;ve got a bunch of &#8217;em I can&#8217;t use any more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Painful knots fade away and everything&#8217;s fine now. I don&#8217;t mean to scare anyone off getting the booster. Everyone reacts differently, and even if this one does leave you sore for a day or two, it&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr>\n\n\n<p>Cerberus and I went for a little stroll this morning. His heads and my horns are in fine form. Hail Satan!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a title=\"3FD309A8-1282-4A86-861E-12CA473C7BBC_1_201_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/52360131426\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52360131426_3a88b21a40_z.jpg\" alt=\"3FD309A8-1282-4A86-861E-12CA473C7BBC_1_201_a\" width=\"636\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such are the joys of trying to keep up with the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,40,10,555,2],"tags":[3699,4001,4000,3999,3998],"class_list":["post-31695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books","category-critters","category-current-events","category-local-color","category-personal","tag-bannedbooksweek","tag-cerberus","tag-shots","tag-theinsulatedlife","tag-unexaminedprejudices"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31695"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31705,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31695\/revisions\/31705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}