{"id":143349,"date":"2020-05-08T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/08\/i-am-used-to-living-alone-why-has-lockdown-made-me-feel-invisible-annalisa-barbieri\/"},"modified":"2020-05-08T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T14:00:29","slug":"i-am-used-to-living-alone-why-has-lockdown-made-me-feel-invisible-annalisa-barbieri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=143349","title":{"rendered":"I am used to living alone. Why has lockdown made me feel invisible? | Annalisa Barbieri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When life is necessarily small, the more negative feelings we\u2019ve managed to keep in abeyance can loom large, says Annalisa BarbieriI had adjusted to living alone after I was widowed six years ago, and since the lockdown friends have telephoned frequently and I chat to neighbours at a distance.Although I feel I am one of the lucky ones and should be fine, I miss, above all, hugs and physical closeness. I have also started to resent people with partners, children or cuddly pets (which I have not done before). Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2020\/may\/08\/living-alone-lockdown-made-me-feel-invisible\" target=\"_blank\">I am used to living alone. Why has lockdown made me feel invisible? | Annalisa Barbieri<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When life is necessarily small, the more negative feelings we\u2019ve managed to keep in abeyance can loom large, says Annalisa BarbieriI had adjusted to living alone after I was widowed six years ago, and since the lockdown friends have telephoned frequently and I chat to neighbours at a distance.Although I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}