{"id":7571,"date":"2008-01-10T07:32:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T12:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7571"},"modified":"2024-10-27T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T15:20:11","slug":"welcome-to-the-lucy-maud-montgomery-walk-in-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7571","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Lucy Maud Montgomery Walk-In Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Me<\/strong>:  Croup?  What the hell IS croup?  All I know about it is from books! Like &#8230;. (long pause, as I tried to remember the various &#8216;croup&#8217; episodes from literature.)<br \/>\n<strong>Kate<\/strong>:  <i>Anne of Green Gables<\/i>.  I mean, do I need to break out the ipecac?<\/p>\n<p>The second Kate said the word &#8216;ipecac&#8217;, the whole episode came shrieking back &#8211; and I love her for filling in the blanks for me.  Of course Kate had to go further and say, &#8220;And once I do break out the ipecac, will the snotty Mrs. Barry let me be friends with her beloved daughter again, even though I DID get her drunk on what I thought was raspberry cordial?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a whole post in and of itself.  Curing sicknesses through remedies we find in books.  Mustard plasters was another big one for LM Montgomery.  Wine was a cure-all, as was a bit of brandy.  You could set up an entire practice called The Louisa May Alcott Medical Clinic, based on the stuff in her books.  Or a Jane Austen Emergency Room.  &#8220;Hi.  I&#8217;m feeling very feverish.&#8221;  &#8220;Step right this way.  One moment, please. I need to prepare the leeches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Etc.<\/p>\n<p>But the main point of writing this is to say that I love Kate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: Croup? What the hell IS croup? All I know about it is from books! Like &#8230;. (long pause, as I tried to remember the various &#8216;croup&#8217; episodes from literature.) Kate: Anne of Green Gables. I mean, do I need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7571\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[2210,600,183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22850,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7571\/revisions\/22850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}