{"id":29033,"date":"2021-05-28T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T13:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=29033"},"modified":"2021-06-17T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:46:43","slug":"who-will-listen-to-my-heart-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=29033","title":{"rendered":"Who will listen to my heart now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Heads down. Hushed voices.<br>Coughs and sneezes.<br>Old Magazines.<br>Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Own, Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Weekly.<br>Flipping pages in the surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Your call is valuable to us.<\/em><br><em>Please hold.<\/em><br>Verdi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hebrew Slaves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Chorus<br>filling the silence.<br>Tenth in the queue you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re told.<br><em>Please hold.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doors locked and bolted.<br>Headphones replacing<br>stethoscopes<br>Who will listen to my heart now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Persistent you say?<br>Trouble with breathing?<\/em><br><em>No. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come into the surgery.<\/em><br>Prescription.<br>A dose of self-isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Behind the glass.<br>Bewildered.<br><em>Why won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t she hold my hand?<\/em><br>We called this shielding.<br>Blowing kisses. Virtual appearances.<br>We called this protecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reminder.<br>Covid-19 Please attend.<\/em><br>Viral mutation.<br>Invading pandemics\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 border.<br>Saved by vaccination.<br><em>Will we need a booster?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who will listen to my heart now?<br>Behind the mask.<br>Fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Joy Johnson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads down. Hushed voices.Coughs and sneezes.Old Magazines.Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Own, Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Weekly.Flipping pages in the surgery. Your call is valuable to us.Please hold.Verdi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hebrew Slaves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Chorusfilling the silence.Tenth in the queue you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re told.Please hold. Doors locked and bolted.Headphones replacingstethoscopesWho will listen to my heart now? Persistent you say?Trouble with breathing?No. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come into the surgery.Prescription.A dose of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1295,576],"wps_subtitle":"Covid-19 has unintended consequences - Unite's Joy Johnson's  poem highlights how the GP surgery is one of them","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29033"}],"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=29033"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29216,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29033\/revisions\/29216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}