{"id":1226,"date":"2026-03-21T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2026-03-21T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:06:59","slug":"shingles-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/21\/shingles-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Shingles Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'system-ui'; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_3217.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_3217.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"582\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'system-ui'; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);\">Had my annual check-up at the VA yesterday. Like most years, I was asked if I wanted the shingles vaccine. Sure. Why not. Side effects? Injection site discomfort. Some body aches. Lethargic today. All of which beats the heck out of actually catching the shingles virus I suppose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'system-ui'; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'system-ui'; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85);\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">And this is just the first in a series of two. Next one is scheduled for May. I think.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had my annual check-up at the VA yesterday. Like most years, I was asked if I wanted the shingles vaccine. Sure. Why not. Side effects? Injection site discomfort. Some body aches. Lethargic today. All of which beats the heck out of actually catching the shingles virus I suppose. \u00a0 And this is just the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[316],"tags":[654,482,653],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","tag-shingles","tag-va","tag-vaccine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}