{"id":5570,"date":"2009-04-30T10:19:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T14:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2009-04-30T10:19:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T14:19:22","slug":"overreacting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5570","title":{"rendered":"Kneejerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldblog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2009\/04\/30\/1915246.aspx\">msnbc.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CAIRO \u2013 Amidst overflowing bags of garbage, Abu Sayed raises pigs, chickens, ducks, pigeons and goats on a small muddy plot of land in order to feed and clothe the extended family of 14 with whom he shares a blackened makeshift shack.  <\/p>\n<p>Since he doesn\u2019t own a radio or a TV, we were the first to inform him that the Egyptian government decreed on Wednesday that his pigs, along with all 300,000 pigs in the country, had to be slaughtered as a precaution against the spread swine flu; <strong>despite the fact that no cases of the H1N1 swine flu virus have been reported here and it is spread by people, not pigs<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Half of the families\u2019 annual income comes from the sale of their small herd of 25 pigs, which usually sell for about $45 a piece. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, if they do get the swine flu, maybe a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kim-evans\/swine-flu-protect-yoursel_b_191550.html\">maple syrup enema<\/a> will help them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>msnbc.com: CAIRO \u2013 Amidst overflowing bags of garbage, Abu Sayed raises pigs, chickens, ducks, pigeons and goats on a small muddy plot of land in order to feed and clothe the extended family of 14 with whom he shares a blackened makeshift shack. Since he doesn\u2019t own a radio or a TV, we were the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}