{"id":77,"date":"2003-08-21T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=77"},"modified":"2003-08-21T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2003-08-21T17:01:01","slug":"mosquito-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2003\/08\/21\/mosquito-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquito Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holy Moly! I’m looking down at a welt on my left forearm measuring more than 3 inches in diameter – truly an incredible sight! It all began yesterday after a memorial service for our beloved HST instructor Bill Quist, a few of us attended an MD-PhD summer dinner at our program director Nancy Andrew’s house out in Winchester. The dinner took place outside under a tent, which without the aid of citronella candles, became a feasting ground for our friend the mosquito … actually, more like our arch nemesis the mosquito. Anyways, despite using various kinds of bug repellants, which I was sure was only helping to select for some super mutant multi-bug-spray-resistant mosquitoes, most of us got nailed pretty badly. I came away with bites all along my forearms, on the back of my neck, and even down at my ankles (they must’ve bit right through my socks). Now I gotta go get me some hydrocortisone cream pronto before the welts get any bigger. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holy Moly! I’m looking down at a welt on my left forearm measuring more than 3 inches in diameter – truly an incredible sight! It all began yesterday after a memorial service for our beloved HST instructor Bill Quist, a … Continue reading →<\/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-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}