{"id":17874,"date":"2026-05-27T21:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=17874"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:32:17","slug":"i-recently-met-a-woman-at-the-supermarket-and-we-started-seeing-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=17874","title":{"rendered":"I recently met a woman at the supermarket and we started seeing each other."},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke up thinking about her smile.
\nTen seconds later, I was staring at painful red sores spreading across my forehead.<\/p>\n

At first, I panicked. I thought it was some horrible disease or chemical burn. After hours of fear and Googling worst-case scenarios, the doctor finally gave me an answer: impetigo \u2014 a contagious but treatable bacterial skin infection.<\/p>\n

Antibiotics helped, and I\u2019m healing now, but the experience shook me badly. One normal night turned into a reminder of how quickly life \u2014 and your health \u2014 can change overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up thinking about her smile. Ten seconds later, I was staring at painful red sores spreading across my forehead. At first, I panicked. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17876,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17874\/revisions\/17876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}