{"id":4705,"date":"2013-04-02T07:56:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2013-04-02T07:57:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:57:03","slug":"alas-theres-a-reason-we-moved-from-oklahoma-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/alas-theres-a-reason-we-moved-from-oklahoma-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Alas, there&#8217;s a reason we moved from Oklahoma CIty&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/04\/02\/health\/worst-allergy-cities\/index.html?hpt=hp_bn13\">Allergies: the worst cities in the US<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent 3\/4 of every year on the strongest allergy meds, while taking the allergy shots for 7 years, and I ended up working whenever the wind changed or the molds had died down, because at other times it was like having half your brain disconnected. I&#8217;d sometimes fall asleep in mid-work&#8212;sleepiness being a very major way allergy can get to you. Emotional upset is the effect of some molds, and we had those, too.<\/p>\n<p>Up here, I rarely ever take any allergy med, maybe one week a year, don&#8217;t take the shots, and have a brain full time with no effort. If an environment gets you as badly as Oklahoma City got me, dear friends, it&#8217;s time to find a place that doesn&#8217;t. Life&#8217;s too short&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be so happy to visit there for Soonercon this June, but I&#8217;ll be packing the allergy meds, and so will Jane. I love the place. I have dear friends down there that I greatly miss. And now my brother&#8217;s moved &#8216;home&#8217; again and is so happy to be back&#8230; but alas, it&#8217;s a place that was killing me, bit by bit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be happy to see it and meet old friends. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allergies: the worst cities in the US I spent 3\/4 of every year on the strongest allergy meds, while taking the allergy shots for 7 years, and I ended up working whenever the wind changed or the molds had died down, because at other times it was like having half your brain disconnected. I&#8217;d sometimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}