{"id":16780,"date":"2018-05-31T08:58:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T08:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=16780"},"modified":"2018-05-31T08:58:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T08:58:36","slug":"poetry-a-life-saver-for-ffion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/poetry-a-life-saver-for-ffion\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry &#8211; a life-saver for Ffion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/ffionoriginalpoems.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ffion Original Poems<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Ffion has a degree in English and French and loves languages, literature, and writing. She also used to love opera, film, theatre, concerts, walking, socialising and, especially, travelling. But her life changed totally when\u00a0she was diagnosed with ME and, subsequently, Fibromyalgia.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, poems started to pour out! Poetry is a life-saver, as is making cards for charities for them to sell to raise funds.<\/p>\n<p>Her poems are very varied &#8211; not just about ME and FM, but also humorous, about animals, about landscape and nature, for children etc.<\/p>\n<p>She is\u00a0publishing her poems on her Blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/ffionoriginalpoems.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ffion original poems<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Out of the blue!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16781 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Blue-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Blue.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Blue.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Blue.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/>It seems that, no matter what you do,<br \/>\nME and FM arrive out of the blue.<\/p>\n<p>You try to live healthily, in body and mind.<br \/>\nYou try to live mindfully, you try to be kind.<\/p>\n<p>Then, these two arrive, uninvited body-squatters,<br \/>\nAnd don\u2019t go, won\u2019t go, abhorrent Life-blockers!<\/p>\n<p>But at least we know we are not alone.<br \/>\nNo need to face this on our own.<\/p>\n<p>There are many people on-side out there.<br \/>\nThey want to cure us, we know they care.<\/p>\n<p>We know they won\u2019t leave us in the lurch<br \/>\nGood people in ME and FM research!<\/p>\n<p>THANK YOU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ffion Original Poems Ffion has a degree in English and French and loves languages, literature, and writing. She also used to love opera, film, theatre, concerts, walking, socialising and, especially, travelling. But her life changed totally when\u00a0she was diagnosed with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/poetry-a-life-saver-for-ffion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4456,1704],"class_list":["post-16780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ffion-original-poems","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-4mE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16782,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16780\/revisions\/16782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}