{"id":206,"date":"2006-11-09T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=206"},"modified":"2006-11-09T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T13:16:00","slug":"temperature-and-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/temperature-and-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Temperature and blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.umich.edu\/news\/Releases\/2004\/Sep04\/img\/blood_press.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.umich.edu\/news\/Releases\/2004\/Sep04\/img\/blood_press.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Being off sick with a flu has given me a chance to ponder the various ways people in different countries deal with being ill.  As all Danish people (possibly all continental Europeans), I check my temperature regularly when I&#8217;m ill (yesterday I reached 39.5\u00b0C [= 103.1\u00b0F]), but Phyllis claims that people in this country don&#8217;t bother &ndash; more often than not, they don&#8217;t even own a thermometer.  As she says, what would I do differently if I didn&#8217;t know my temperature?<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, people don&#8217;t check their temperature either, but instead they check their blood pressure, and they thought it was weird that I didn&#8217;t know my normal blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>I believe I once heard that people in China do something different when they&#8217;re ill, but unfortunately, I&#8217;ve totally forgotten what it was.  Does anybody know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being off sick with a flu has given me a chance to ponder the various ways people in different countries deal with being ill. As all Danish people (possibly all continental Europeans), I check my temperature regularly when I&#8217;m ill (yesterday I reached 39.5\u00b0C [= 103.1\u00b0F]), but Phyllis claims that people in this country don&#8217;t bother &ndash; more often than not, they don&#8217;t even own a thermometer. As she says, what would I do differently if I didn&#8217;t know my temperature? In Georgia, people don&#8217;t check their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}