{"id":3714,"date":"2018-06-16T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T13:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2018-08-08T18:59:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T18:59:59","slug":"footsteps-by-jacqueline-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/2018\/06\/16\/footsteps-by-jacqueline-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Footsteps&#8217;, by Jacqueline Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pain permeates her dreams,<br \/>\nSeeps into this anaemic morning.<br \/>\nSucking breath to unhinge each joint<br \/>\nstuck fast through the cramp of night.<br \/>\nThe bathroom is an agony away,<br \/>\nTender feet must scrape each step while<br \/>\nWincing fingers trace the rails along<br \/>\nher jagged journey.<br \/>\nTap turners levered by cankered wrists<br \/>\nbring the gush and plunge of warm water,<br \/>\nA pure moment of relief.<\/p>\n<p>Her baby wakes in a scream of urgency<br \/>\nunanswered by her stumbling mother<br \/>\nwho struggles to dress herself,<br \/>\nTo start another day.<br \/>\nSoon her child will grow to patience,<br \/>\nLearn wisdom beyond her years,<br \/>\nWait, while snaps and buttons<br \/>\nare fastened with fragile hands<br \/>\nAnd desperate cuddles given,<br \/>\ncringed with wrinkling pain.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>by Jacqueline Woods<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For further information see: <a href=\"http:\/\/arthritiscare.org.uk\">arthritiscare.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>United Kingdom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pain permeates her dreams, Seeps into this anaemic morning. Sucking breath to unhinge each joint stuck fast through the cramp of night. The bathroom is an agony away, Tender feet must scrape each step while Wincing fingers trace the rails along her jagged journey. Tap turners levered by cankered wrists bring the gush and plunge [&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":[103,11,15,21],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthology","tag-grief","tag-isolation","tag-loss","tag-waiting","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bHTD-XU","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","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=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}