{"id":2701,"date":"2018-02-26T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2018-08-09T19:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T19:34:01","slug":"an-everyday-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/2018\/02\/26\/an-everyday-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;An Everyday Battle&#8217;, by Sophie Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">Just a little twist, a sideways step to dodge out of the path of an eyes-forward businessman on a mission. My hip twists with the sideways step, then ankle and finally, knee. It\u2019s a searing pain, stabs straight through the joint like a missile and there\u2019s a battle taking place in there. My face is blank, a natural reaction to sudden, unbearable pain: a state of brief shock, no matter how many times it happens. No one would know, especially not the businessman with his dead eyes and umbrella wielded like a weapon. A friend notices my misstep and grabs my arm to speed up \u2013 the knee won\u2019t buckle, never does, so I carry on with clenched teeth and hands and eyes. Good little soldier, that knee. We walk on, the debris of dead bone \u2013 dead men \u2013 in that ordinary-looking joint waging war silently beneath my skin.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"><em><em>by\u00a0Sophie Powell<\/em><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>United Kingdom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little twist, a sideways step to dodge out of the path of an eyes-forward businessman on a mission. My hip twists with the sideways step, then ankle and finally, knee. It\u2019s a searing pain, stabs straight through the joint like a missile and there\u2019s a battle taking place in there. My face is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,102,12,26],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthology","tag-body","tag-distress","tag-invisibility","tag-social","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bHTD-Hz","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}