{"id":305,"date":"2020-07-11T13:35:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T12:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/2020\/07\/11\/little-children-poem-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T19:03:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T19:03:43","slug":"samaritans-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/2020\/07\/11\/samaritans-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Samaritans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter nopad is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background has-secondary-background-color\" href=\".\/little-children-poem\">Previous<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background has-secondary-background-color\" href=\".\/megpoems\">menu<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background has-secondary-background-color\" href=\"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/2020\/07\/09\/jane-1936\/\">back to poem 1<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignfull is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:43% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/P39.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/P39.jpg 480w, https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/P39-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Samaritans<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/strong><\/strong>(1994)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Samaritans, Samaritans<br>Oh rally to the call!<br>Come early to your sessions please<br>Ye unsung heroes all.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Fear not that ringing telephone;<br>Fear not the flashing lights;<br>Fear not the chiming front door bell;<br>Don&#8217;t dread those long long nights.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>You only have listen;<br>You only have to care;<br>You only have to share their woes,<br>Their worries, their despair.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>You are a stranger, just a voice,<br>An unknown entity,<br>But you are linked to life and death<br>By your telepathy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meg Rugg-Easey May 1978<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samaritans, Samaritans<br \/>\nOh rally to the call!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15,21],"tags":[13,22,60],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-61","category-meg","category-poem","tag-meg","tag-poem","tag-samaritans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruggeasey.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}