{"id":3997,"date":"2019-11-15T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T10:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2019-11-15T10:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T10:54:44","slug":"night-shift-by-spinalpain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/night-shift-by-spinalpain\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Night shift&#8217;, by SpinalPain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\">Welcome to my evening. I would love to simply kiss my husband goodnight and doze off. TURN OVER, I have taken my evening medication, all six of them. TURN OVER. My husband starts his evening purrs, just his rhythmic tiger sounds use to aid me to slumber. TURN OVER. No more can I find that useful vessel called sleep. TURN OVER My glass is no longer half full, there is no glass at all. TURN OVER. The TV is on very low but to me it\u2019s screaming, TURN OVER. Its now wintertime and I have only a cotton sheet on me and heat is emitting from all my pores, TURN OVER. TV off and say my prayers please Lord flick this switch that screams my pain, let my strength in you regain. TURN OVER. It must be 3am now and still no sleep, maybe in the next hour\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>by SpinalPain<\/em>\n<p>UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my evening. I would love to simply kiss my husband goodnight and doze off. TURN OVER, I have taken my evening medication, all six of them. TURN OVER. My husband starts his evening purrs, just his rhythmic tiger sounds use to aid me to slumber. TURN OVER. No more can I find that&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/night-shift-by-spinalpain\/\">Continue Reading<span> &#8216;Night shift&#8217;, by SpinalPain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"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":[16],"tags":[60,82,116,120],"class_list":["post-3997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthology","tag-evening","tag-isolation","tag-time","tag-waiting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mjRE-12t","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3995,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/unwanted-visitor-by-spinalpain\/","url_meta":{"origin":3997,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Unwanted visitor&#8217;, by SpinalPain","author":"strongs","date":"November 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"It came to visit last week. No warning at Three am. One turn in my bed and here it is. Stealing my long breaths. Grasping the hand rail, I try to turn on my side. The red-hot cattle prod steals my spine. The pain splinters through my nerves screaming. One,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthology","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/category\/anthology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3862,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/flare-by-amymillios-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":3997,"position":1},"title":"&#8216;Flare*&#8217;, by amymillios.blog","author":"strongs","date":"September 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve slept through Christmas.\u00a0I shiver and pull the covers over me; sweat, and throw the covers off. My head bobs with nausea as I hobble to the bathroom to pee. The cats stay away, though at some point I hear them sliding across the living room floor, chasing that knitted\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthology","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/category\/anthology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3718,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/partners-in-my-care-by-anonymous\/","url_meta":{"origin":3997,"position":2},"title":"&#8216;Partners In My Care&#8217;, by anonymous","author":"strongs","date":"June 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I sit in my place\u2014the patient\u2019s chair\u2014prepared to be a partner in my care. I\u2019ve brought an expanding bible of medical tests and consultant notes, a list of medications and interventions, including what has worked and what hasn\u2019t, and a diary of symptoms I now describe with familiarity. Muscles spasm\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthology","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/category\/anthology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2916,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/in-stillness\/","url_meta":{"origin":3997,"position":3},"title":"&#8216;In Stillness&#8217;, by D. Phoenix","author":"strongs","date":"March 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The way the scent of the air changes as the day goes on: the warming sweetness of morning; the sharp resin of fir trees as the sun heats the day; the cool, soft evening air with the ground and lake and all the waving leaves mixed in. The way the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthology","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/category\/anthology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2954,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/the-ache-by-kitty-frilling\/","url_meta":{"origin":3997,"position":4},"title":"&#8216;The Ache&#8217;, by Kitty Frilling","author":"strongs","date":"March 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It wouldn\u2019t be fair to say the ache starts every morning as I wake. Or truthfully that I wake at all, more I become conscious\u2026 of the pain.\u00a0 The fire started small and young. Fickle flickering up my spine. Across my shoulders like a seasoned log, spreading further, faster as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthology","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/category\/anthology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2734,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/2734-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":3997,"position":5},"title":"&#8216;Mutation&#8217;, by\u00a0Marion Michell","author":"strongs","date":"March 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"An afternoon spent, or was it an evening, or three, in a wheel clamp\u2019s tender clasp. My dues for modernist mutation paid out in full: ribs, calves, hands, sections of skull, wrenching, arching, hardening. A homecoming of sorts, a holding; mattress won\u2019t grumble, neither will I \u2013 if only we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthology","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/category\/anthology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"This image is of a small green vase, grass-green and made of thick glass which slightly tapers top to bottom. Four small tulips stand in water, three with fading orange petals, one with purple. All are in the stage just before the petals, which seem to be curling in on themselves, fall off. A few stamen are visible, like tiny black tongues.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/files\/2018\/02\/MMichelltulips.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/files\/2018\/02\/MMichelltulips.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/files\/2018\/02\/MMichelltulips.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/files\/2018\/02\/MMichelltulips.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/files\/2018\/02\/MMichelltulips.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}