{"id":80883,"date":"2022-02-11T06:57:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T12:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80883"},"modified":"2022-02-11T06:57:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T12:57:38","slug":"damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80883","title":{"rendered":"Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After Vietnam, the &#8220;physically healthy but psychologically ravaged veteran became part of the American storybook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, it turned a spotlight &#8211; or at least a flashlight &#8211; on the damage veterans of all wars had, but had never really talked about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bring that up to set the stage for what may become a far greater psychic plague: PCSD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post Covic Stress Syndrome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like this&#8230;er, person:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Chinchillazllla\/status\/1491487257701801984\n<\/div><figcaption>Verified: Not Parody<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that &#8220;Science!&#8221; has intersected with politics &#8211; specifically, pre-mid-term polling &#8211;  and &#8220;blue&#8217; governments are dropping restrictions faster than Jacob Frey dropping fashion shoots, look for these veterans of the pestilence to feel just as traumatized and abandoned as John Rambo at the end of <em>First Blood<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Vietnam, the &#8220;physically healthy but psychologically ravaged veteran became part of the American storybook. Eventually, it turned a spotlight &#8211; or at least a flashlight &#8211; on the damage veterans of all wars had, but had never really talked about. I bring that up to set the stage for what may become a far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80884,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80883\/revisions\/80884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}