{"id":629741,"date":"2025-12-13T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629741\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:32:13","slug":"even-calpol-lets-us-down-in-the-face-of-our-latest-family-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629741\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Calpol lets us down in the face of our latest family plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">The chemist is kind when I venture, bleary-eyed and smelling of regurgitated fruit syrup, to our local pharmacy, but stresses paracetamol suppositories are expensive. They don\u2019t carry many of them, he tells me, since people in the UK don\u2019t really go for anal medicine. \u201cThey love it in France,\u201d he tells me, with a vigour that suggests the good people of France would take their dinners up their arses if the option were available. On seeing the bill, however, I can\u2019t help thinking that even G\u00e9rard Depardieu, unbuckling his belt at the hint of a headache, would blanch at the thought of spending \u00a33 per pellet. I, on the other hand, march back home happy to be \u00a330 lighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chemist is kind when I venture, bleary-eyed and smelling of regurgitated fruit syrup, to our local pharmacy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[390,194920,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-629741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-family","9":"tag-seamas-oreilly","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115711098426724737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}