{"id":3752,"date":"2020-04-25T19:15:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T23:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2020-05-09T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T15:50:14","slug":"shock-journal-entry-from-march-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/2020\/04\/25\/shock-journal-entry-from-march-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock: Journal | March 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/files\/2020\/04\/Bleach-copy_FINAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4130\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/files\/2020\/04\/Bleach-copy_FINAL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"713\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By Alexis Angelus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s getting hard. I\u2019m trying to look on the bright side, but it\u2019s hard. It seemed insane at first, but now it\u2019s difficult to not feel like I\u2019m going insane. I\u2019m trying to create reasons this will be okay, but it\u2019s hard to keep supporting them. Things are getting weird here. My parents have been insane about spraying everything down with bleach. If we get a package, they sprint to the door with a bottle and rag to disinfect everything before it comes farther than the porch. When I went on a run today, I passed a woman twice who flipped up her mask at every passerby. People avoid you like the plague &#8212; literally &#8212; on the sidewalks. They cross the streets when they see you coming. If I didn\u2019t know what was going on, I might take it personally.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t stop thinking about how long this will follow us for. How long will I be stuck inside? How long until I can get a job? How long until I can see my friends? How long until I can go outside, touch things in the grocery store, hug my family, and not be scared? In 30 years, when the class of 2020 shows up on my resume, will they pity me? Or will they admire the fact that we got through it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Angelus It\u2019s getting hard. I\u2019m trying to look on the bright side, but it\u2019s hard. It seemed insane at first, but now it\u2019s difficult to not feel like I\u2019m going insane. I\u2019m trying to create reasons this will be okay, but it\u2019s hard to keep supporting them. Things are getting weird here. My <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/2020\/04\/25\/shock-journal-entry-from-march-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Shock: Journal | March 25<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4702,"featured_media":4130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[97660],"tags":[97675],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winnetka-il","tag-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/files\/2020\/04\/Bleach-copy_FINAL.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7o53H-Yw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/walkingrichmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}