{"id":37631,"date":"2017-08-05T19:07:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37631"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:07:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:07:59","slug":"dementia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/dementia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sun downing, reaching for so simple words,<\/p>\n<p>Forgetting faces and places where I did go\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Is that my daughter? Do I dare eat a peach?<\/p>\n<p>My buttons\u2014my thoughts\u2014are just out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>Now I wear Depends and can\u2019t cut with a knife,<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t recognize my grandkids and slip-out of life.<\/p>\n<p>Could I have stopped madness before my decline<\/p>\n<p>Or remedied with diet, vitamins, and cardio-exercise,<\/p>\n<p>Working cross-word puzzles enjoyed in my prime?<\/p>\n<p>As you are now I was; as I am now, you will be\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Unable to walk, sit, without wit, memory, teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sun downing, reaching for so simple words, Forgetting faces and places where I did go\u2014 Is that my daughter? Do I dare eat a peach? My buttons\u2014my thoughts\u2014are just out of reach. Now I wear Depends and can\u2019t cut with a knife, Don\u2019t recognize&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37631","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\/979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104672,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37631\/revisions\/104672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}