{"id":83,"date":"2005-06-27T13:58:01","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T20:58:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-08-18T07:40:16","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T14:40:16","slug":"my-friend-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/my-friend-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"My friend Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Rich:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture(1).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/user_files\/Image\/email\/2005-06-27-13-58-01-9037.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s in med school with me.&nbsp; We&#8217;re taking a class together right now, and today we were out in Belleville, IL (about 30 min from St. Louis) to learn all about Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life Support.&nbsp; We had an hour off for lunch and we were going to go to this little Mexican place Rich knew of, but they were closed due to a &quot;Boil Order&quot;.&nbsp; What is that you may ask (I certainly did).&nbsp; Well, it means that the water pressure in Belleville was not high enough to ensure that contaminants would not leak back into the fresh water &#8211; thus all tap water becomes potentially contaminated and people are advised to boil it before using it.&nbsp; This also makes restaurants close down, since they can&#8217;t very well clean anything in dirty water.&nbsp; So everyone ended up going to Jack-in-the-Box instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Rich: He&#8217;s in med school with me.&nbsp; We&#8217;re taking a class together right now, and today we were out in Belleville, IL (about 30 min from St. Louis) to learn all about Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiac &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/my-friend-rich\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medschool","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}