{"id":3743,"date":"2014-08-24T00:38:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T04:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2014-08-24T02:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T06:28:16","slug":"dementias-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/dementias-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia&#8217;s mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Locked inside a strangers mind,<\/p>\n<p>they wait.<\/p>\n<p>In search of\u00a0treasured memories,<\/p>\n<p>they wait.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to loved ones they no longer recognize,<\/p>\n<p>they wait.<\/p>\n<p>Playing a lone game of seek and find,<\/p>\n<p>they wait.<\/p>\n<p>Scared the second control loses grip,<\/p>\n<p>they wait.<\/p>\n<p>Masking forgotten words with clever tricks,<\/p>\n<p>they wait.<\/p>\n<p>For someone to hold a mirror up,<\/p>\n<p>they wait.<\/p>\n<p>To accept themselves as never to be the same,<\/p>\n<p>they wait.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to the question, why me?<\/p>\n<p>they wait.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locked inside a strangers mind, they wait. In search of\u00a0treasured memories, they wait. Speaking to loved ones they no longer recognize, they wait. Playing a lone game of seek and find, they wait. Scared the second control loses grip, they wait. Masking forgotten words with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[193,182,206,183,23,31,192],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-193","tag-age","tag-dementia","tag-emotions","tag-life","tag-love","tag-self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}