{"id":2470,"date":"2018-02-22T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2018-05-09T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T13:49:09","slug":"hurting-haikus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/2018\/02\/22\/hurting-haikus\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hurting Haikus&#8217;, by Vanessa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/files\/2018\/01\/IMG_20170809_113755047.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph taken by someone seated at the top of a small hill, showing their legs at rest.\" width=\"2268\" height=\"4032\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">\u00a0Eight months of pain, guilt.<br \/>\nLosing my movement slowly,<br \/>\nAffecting my work.<\/span>Pain in my hip, back,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"> Encroaching on everything.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"> Physio: please help.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Boss can&#8217;t understand,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"> Pretended it wasn&#8217;t bad.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"> I used to be fit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Practicing patience,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"> Trying to be kind to self.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"> But some days that&#8217;s hard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\"><em>by Vanessa<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\">[This image shows my legs in better times, when they were still able to take me on a 15 kilometre hike through the Rocky Mountains. Summer, 2017.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;font-size: 14pt\">Canada<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Eight months of pain, guilt. Losing my movement slowly, Affecting my work.Pain in my hip, back, Encroaching on everything. Physio: please help.Boss can&#8217;t understand, Pretended it wasn&#8217;t bad. I used to be fit. Practicing patience, Trying to be kind to self. But some days that&#8217;s hard. &nbsp; by Vanessa [This image shows my legs in [&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":[14,19,31,17,15,21],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthology","tag-body","tag-credibility","tag-hardship","tag-hope","tag-loss","tag-waiting","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bHTD-DQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3647,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}