{"id":2081,"date":"2018-02-08T20:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2018-08-08T15:13:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T15:13:11","slug":"7-months-of-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/2018\/02\/08\/7-months-of-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;7 Months of Pain&#8217;, by Robert Orr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\">Every day I travelled, called or thought<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\"> It was never going to get better<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\"> But the morphine did its job<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\"> Varying degrees of brightness\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\"> But in the end all 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