{"id":57216,"date":"2023-03-03T19:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T19:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=57216"},"modified":"2023-03-03T19:31:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T19:31:54","slug":"silence-by-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/03\/silence-by-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence by degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ward a dismal place of woe<br \/>\nRecovering souls lie still<br \/>\nRigged up to contraptions<br \/>\nServiced there\u2019s a chill<br \/>\nThere\u2019s grief frustration,fear and pain<br \/>\nA time honoured stint<br \/>\nAn army of nurses delivering care<br \/>\nGive the love that\u2019s missing there<\/p>\n<p>Infections illness a lack of gait<br \/>\nSedentary all of them wait<br \/>\nSleeping off the many hours<br \/>\nEating the processed stuff<br \/>\nA rising group  of bodies<br \/>\nMedicaments galore<br \/>\nAll under surveillance<br \/>\nLike they haven\u2019t been before.<\/p>\n<p>Finger tips pinched avidly<br \/>\nHearts checked night and day<br \/>\nCatheters emptied,  bottles stacked<br \/>\nFor everything a way<br \/>\nTableting taking blood<br \/>\nThe frighteners patrol<br \/>\nSheets and blankets crisp and dry<br \/>\nIt\u2019s anything but droll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ward a dismal place of woe Recovering souls lie still Rigged up to contraptions Serviced there\u2019s a chill There\u2019s grief frustration,fear and pain A time honoured stint An army of nurses delivering care Give the love that\u2019s missing there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/03\/silence-by-degree\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,173,230,478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-carers","category-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57220,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57216\/revisions\/57220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}