{"id":2495,"date":"2010-09-20T07:28:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T11:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2010-09-17T16:41:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T20:41:05","slug":"the-perils-of-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/09\/the-perils-of-popularity.html","title":{"rendered":"The perils of popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewashtenaw.org\/government\/departments\/public_health\/ph_portal\/sick_boy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Sick Boy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewashtenaw.org\/government\/departments\/public_health\/ph_portal\/sick_boy\" alt=\"Sick Boy\" width=\"320\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a>In our ongoing series of scientific studies proving the obvious, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/HEALTH\/09\/15\/health.popular.people.flu\/index.html?hpt=Sbin\">comes news<\/a> that popular people get sick first.\u00a0 Duh.<\/p>\n<p>What may be slightly less obvious is that health agencies might benefit from identifying and monitoring these social butterflies.\u00a0 After all, they are like the proverbial canaries in the coal mine.\u00a0 If some epidemic is going to run through a community, these soldiers can be expected to step up and take one for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us more socially challenged individuals may also take solace in our relative good health.\u00a0 Sure, we may not get invited to any of the cool parties or get mobbed with hugs when we walk into a room.\u00a0 But when all you Paris Hilton wanna-bees are on your deathbed, we&#8217;ll be hale as a horse, ensconced in our geeky dens full of Fritos and flat screens.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: there&#8217;s an upside to everything if you squint hard enough and tilt your head just right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our ongoing series of scientific studies proving the obvious, comes news that popular people get sick first.\u00a0 Duh. What<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/09\/the-perils-of-popularity.html\" title=\"Read The perils of popularity\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-justforfun","category-sliceoflife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}