{"id":60616,"date":"2012-04-11T06:28:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T10:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=60616"},"modified":"2012-04-11T06:28:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T10:28:26","slug":"poem-twice-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/poetry\/poem-twice-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Twice a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36337\" title=\"elderly hands\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/elderly-hands-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/elderly-hands-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/elderly-hands-137x113.jpg 137w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/elderly-hands.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/>We curtsy to him who we do not see<br \/>\nAnd with a girl murdered long ago we drink tea<br \/>\nWe compliment grandma on how beautifully she has done up her strawberry blonde hair<br \/>\nShe thanks us and asks if we are coming to her sweet sixteen after the fair<br \/>\nDaddy can no longer take it and has left the room<br \/>\nWith this acting he is unable to resume<br \/>\nHe sits outside, his face stained with tears<\/p>\n<p>Dementia has taken my grandmother as its captive<br \/>\nNo longer in reality does she live<br \/>\nShe sees not her wrinkles and balding white hair<br \/>\nWe play along because we care<br \/>\nAnd when she falls asleep we all shed tears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We curtsy to him who we do not see And with a girl murdered long ago we drink tea We compliment grandma on how beautifully she has done up her strawberry blonde hair She thanks us and asks if we&#8230;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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