{"id":638,"date":"2013-01-14T19:03:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T03:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=638"},"modified":"2013-01-27T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T02:30:13","slug":"ode-to-the-mentally-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/ode-to-the-mentally-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Mentally Ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>by Carolyn Hale <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>tune: I\u2019m a Yankee Doodle Dandy<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mental illness, hell, I\u2019m (we\u2019re) crazy,<br \/>\nBut there is a person here.<br \/>\nI am (we are) taking medication<br \/>\nWhose names make me (us) despair.<\/p>\n<p>Every day we are courageous.<br \/>\nPeople need to know the scoop:<br \/>\nWe need housing,<br \/>\nWe need jobs,<br \/>\nWe need kind attention<br \/>\nTo be a member of a group.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not strangers and we\u2019re lonely.<br \/>\nWhy don\u2019t you want us around.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re ignored and forgotten\u2014<br \/>\nNo wonder our anger abounds.<\/p>\n<p>No one seems to want to help us<br \/>\nWith the services we need.<br \/>\nFifty million suffering persons<br \/>\nWaiting for acceptance\u2014<br \/>\nOne in four is in your family! (whisper: WOW!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Carolyn Hale tune: I\u2019m a Yankee Doodle Dandy Mental illness, hell, I\u2019m (we\u2019re) crazy, But there is a person here. I am (we are) taking medication Whose names make me (us) despair. Every day we are courageous. People need to know the scoop: We need housing, We need jobs, We need kind attention To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}