{"id":54851,"date":"2022-01-31T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/opinion\/great-news-the-pandemic-is-over-shiers\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T00:45:00","slug":"great-news-the-pandemic-is-over-shiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/opinion\/great-news-the-pandemic-is-over-shiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Great news! The pandemic is over! | Shiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s your state cartoon for this week. It&rsquo;s based on the reporting of Danny Westneat over the weekend in the Seattle Times: &ldquo;Christopher Murray, head of the influential disease-modeling Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, said the virus is still circulating at high rates for now. But in a matter of a few weeks, it will be Seattle Unmuzzled once again &mdash; and for good this time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While the news is good, I wanted to acknowledge the terrible cost of the pandemic. Have a good week. &mdash; Frank Shiers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s your state cartoon for this week. It&rsquo;s based on the reporting of Danny Westneat over the weekend in the Seattle Times: &ldquo;Christopher Murray, head of the influential disease-modeling Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, said the virus is still circulating at high rates for now. But in a matter of a few weeks, it will be Seattle Unmuzzled once again &mdash; and for good this time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":54852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-54851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54851"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=54851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}