{"id":21002,"date":"2020-04-23T16:09:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=21002"},"modified":"2020-04-23T16:09:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:09:31","slug":"the-doctor-will-see-you-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=21002","title":{"rendered":"The doctor will see you now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Yesterday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heads down. Hushed voices.<\/p>\n<p>Coughs and sneezes.<\/p>\n<p>Old magazines. <em>Cosmopolitan,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>National Geographic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Flipping pages in the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Patients waiting patiently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Your call is valuable to us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please hold.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Filling the silence \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Verdi,<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hebrew Chorus<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tenth in the queue. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re told.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please hold.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The doctor can speak to you now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From behind closed doors,<\/p>\n<p>head-phones for stethoscopes.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are your symptoms?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How long? <\/em><em>Persistent you say?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How hot? Trouble with breathing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On our doorstep behind our gate<\/p>\n<p>we applaud. Make a noise for<\/p>\n<p>nurses, care workers on the front line<\/p>\n<p>without security a casualty of austerity.<\/p>\n<p>Warnings aplenty.\u00c2\u00a0Promises empty.<\/p>\n<p>Intensive care becoming desperate.<\/p>\n<p>A blanched hand pressed on a window.<\/p>\n<p>A child on the other side with a rainbow.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Joy Johnson @joyjohnson22<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doctor can speak to you now.<\/p>\n<p>From behind closed doors,<\/p>\n<p>head-phones for stethoscopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,1308],"tags":[1295,29],"wps_subtitle":"A poem for our times","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21002"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21012,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21002\/revisions\/21012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}