{"id":1184,"date":"2018-10-03T16:25:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T06:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2018-10-03T16:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T06:55:22","slug":"flinders-universitys-springfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2018\/10\/03\/flinders-universitys-springfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Flinders University&#8217;s SpringFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To me &#8216;spring&#8217; means my garden looks lovely, and my eyes water constantly and I sneeze a lot. I think it wonderfully cruel of the universe to give me a love of gardening and bad allergies at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>But spring is not just about me and my inability to tame histamines. 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