{"id":40133,"date":"2019-12-21T23:50:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T04:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=40133"},"modified":"2019-12-22T00:50:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T05:50:17","slug":"dec-21-19-winter-solstice-day-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?p=40133","title":{"rendered":"DEC 21, 19 .. WINTER SOLSTICE DAY IN ALASKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Winter Solstice is a big deal up here in Alaska. The sun now begins its return North after heading South last June. We &#8216;gained&#8217; one minute of additional daylight today.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And?<\/p>\n<p>Today I took a very deep breath, and with Patti&#8217;s help and support, I resumed taking Risedronate for my male osteoporosis. I stopped taking the Risedronate a year ago when I could no longer get it in Russian Siberia. It was a big move emotionally for me. I don&#8217;t like taking it because it has some serious (as in death) possible side-effects if not taken properly. On the other hand, my Mayo Clinic doctor asked me to resume taking it so he can re-evalutate my bone condition when we see one another this up coming February. Previously I&#8217;d written him from Mongolia that I&#8217;d stopped the regimine and Patti had spoken to his staff by telephone as well.<\/p>\n<p>I was out-and-about today and this evening Patti and I enjoyed a really pleasant (Singapore Rice Noodle) dinner together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/?attachment_id=36536\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36536\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36536\" src=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN0006-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN0006-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN0006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN0006-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/babakaps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN0006.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After coming home I had a long visit with Tom Tiger.<\/p>\n<p>Cap and Patti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winter Solstice is a big deal up here in Alaska. The sun now begins its return North after heading South last June. We &#8216;gained&#8217; one minute of additional daylight&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-omnibus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40137,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40133\/revisions\/40137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}