{"id":113784,"date":"2016-02-15T22:04:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/15\/as-you-know-the-immune-system-walks-a-fine-line\/"},"modified":"2016-02-15T22:04:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:04:54","slug":"as-you-know-the-immune-system-walks-a-fine-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/15\/as-you-know-the-immune-system-walks-a-fine-line\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>as you know, the immune system walks a fine line between being absolutely useless and killing you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>immunology professor this week (via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hyacinth-willow.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">hyacinth-willow<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I mean, a fever is basically your immune system going, \u201cLET\u2019S SEE WHO BURNS FIRST, MOTHERFUCKER.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/thebastardofgloucester.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">thebastardofgloucester<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>#<a href=\"http:\/\/overtonesofreality.tumblr.com\/tagged\/also-most-deadly-illnesses-are-only-deadly-because-your-immune-system-is-trying-to-help\" target=\"_blank\">ALSO MOST DEADLY ILLNESSES ARE ONLY DEADLY BECAUSE YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM IS TRYING TO HELP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/fightthecoldwithspices.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">fightthecoldwithspices<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Nice<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/themarzipanvolta.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">themarzipanvolta<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>How have humans made it this far<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/thebeatboxfox.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">thebeatboxfox<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>your immune system is basically a petulant child that sometimes burns the entire house down to spite its sibling for getting the last pop tart, and the only difference is which sibling in particular. nervous system? multiple sclerosis or guillain barre. pancreas? diabetes. joints? rheumatoid arthritis. intestines? ibd. skin? psoriasis. hey, wait, did immune system actually take the last pop tart itself? it\u2019s lupus! (via <a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mV1W1UoIoWsIj0lZ830NLeA\" target=\"_blank\">@threefootroo<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>come on, everyone knows it\u2019s never lupus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as you know, the immune system walks a fine line between being absolutely useless and killing you immunology professor this week (via\u00a0hyacinth-willow) I mean, a fever is basically your immune system going, \u201cLET\u2019S SEE WHO BURNS FIRST, MOTHERFUCKER.\u201d (via thebastardofgloucester) #ALSO MOST DEADLY ILLNESSES ARE ONLY DEADLY BECAUSE YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM IS TRYING TO HELP &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/15\/as-you-know-the-immune-system-walks-a-fine-line\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13814,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}