{"id":3049,"date":"2018-04-02T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2018-08-08T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:13:08","slug":"the-question-anon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/2018\/04\/02\/the-question-anon\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Question&#8217; (Anon.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/files\/2018\/03\/Bildschirmfoto-2018-03-05-um-20.43.25.png\" alt=\"The image is a screenshot of poetry. It reads as follows: The Question The most common question has become the hardest to answer. I hesitate and I respond, at random: &quot;I'm okay.&quot; Alternatively: &quot;Yes, okay. You?&quot; &quot;Better, thanks.&quot; &quot;Not so great.&quot; &quot;Good.&quot; &quot;Okay really.&quot; 'Okay' is a useful one; it allows for ambiguity. Even when I use it to indicate its opposite, the conversation can go on. Saying 'I'm better' is saying what the other wants to hear; it is, most of the time, a lie. 'Good' I want to save for when that's true. 'Not so great' is for those I sense might understand. But - how are you?\" width=\"1712\" height=\"966\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"><em>Anon.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">Germany<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anon. Germany<\/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":[14,24,19,102,103,31,12,11,15,22,26,20],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthology","tag-body","tag-connection","tag-credibility","tag-distress","tag-grief","tag-hardship","tag-invisibility","tag-isolation","tag-loss","tag-medical","tag-social","tag-time","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bHTD-Nb","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","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=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}