{"id":35351,"date":"2017-08-05T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35351"},"modified":"2017-08-05T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:12:32","slug":"dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like the weather;<\/p>\n<p>More like climate change,<\/p>\n<p>Going unnoticed until it can\u2019t be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the ocean level reaches the balcony.<\/p>\n<p><em>Who are you? \u00a0You\u2019re a fat little thing!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGranny\u2019s hiding candy in her shoes and wearing them to bed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there are no more trees to shelter the birds.<\/p>\n<p><em>My forgetter\u2019s working real good. I know you\u2019re going to make a good teacher.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandma, I just graduated from medical school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, extreme weather makes us enemies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Somebody stole my pressure cooker and replaced it with this one<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, Aunt G. I gave you that one for Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Denial and enabling,<\/p>\n<p>The tools of legislators and family members.<\/p>\n<p>Confabulation and obfuscation,<\/p>\n<p>The tools of big business and high intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It\u2019s not like the weather; More like climate change, Going unnoticed until it can\u2019t be ignored. &nbsp; Finally, the ocean level reaches the balcony. Who are you? \u00a0You\u2019re a fat little thing! \u201cGranny\u2019s hiding candy in her shoes and wearing them to bed.\u201d &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35900,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35351\/revisions\/35900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}