{"id":5665,"date":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","slug":"wind-loving-plants-allergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wind-loving-plants-allergies\/","title":{"rendered":"Anemophilous Plants Ruined My Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=justify><img src='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/wp\/images\/knock-out-rose.jpg' alt='Pollen from bright colored flowers is not usually allergy-inducing.' align='left' hspace='20' vspace='20'>As I <a href='https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/allergies-pregnancy\/Default.asp'>blogged<\/a> about recently, I&#39;ve been struggling with seasonal allergies for the first time in my life, probably in large part due to my pregnancy. I moved to Atlanta from California almost three years ago, and it&#39;s also possible that allergies to the new pollens here are finally.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, this last Saturday was particularly miserable for me. We had a great day planned: going to a friend&#39;s graduation from Georgia Tech, dropping in at the Peachtree Farmer&#39;s Market, and then stopping to see another friend who had a booth at Tucker Day. <\/p>\n<p>But almost from when I got out of bed, I was sneezing what really seemed like nonstop. And between sneezing bouts, my eyes, nose, and throat were extremely itchy. We did all of our activities, but I came to understand first-hand what allergy sufferers already know so well: Allergies affect everyday quality of life. I could barely enjoy what we were doing as I sniffed and swiped (my nose, that is).<\/p>\n<p> While I have been experiencing allergies more than I before, I wondered what made the day particularly different. Why were my allergies so much worse? A friend suggested that it was the wind, which made perfect sense; airborne pollen grains and other allergens are stirred up when the breezes pick up <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I blogged about recently, I&#39;ve been struggling with seasonal allergies for the first time in my life, probably in large part due to my pregnancy. I moved to Atlanta from California almost three years ago, and it&#39;s also possible&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}