{"id":144658,"date":"2020-05-18T15:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T13:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/18\/amid-the-covid-19-crisis-i-keep-thinking-about-the-children-in-our-hospices-benjamin-zephaniah\/"},"modified":"2020-05-18T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T13:49:42","slug":"amid-the-covid-19-crisis-i-keep-thinking-about-the-children-in-our-hospices-benjamin-zephaniah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=144658","title":{"rendered":"Amid the Covid-19 crisis, I keep thinking about the children in our hospices | Benjamin Zephaniah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m inspired by a West Midlands charity, but our community\u2019s most vulnerable members are being hit the hardestCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLast December I visited a charity that is very close to my heart: Acorns children\u2019s hospice.I had the privilege of chatting, telling stories and reading some of my poetry to an inspirational group of children and families. . And they performed some of their poetry for me. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/may\/18\/covid-19-children-hospices-west-midlands\" target=\"_blank\">Amid the Covid-19 crisis, I keep thinking about the children in our hospices | Benjamin Zephaniah<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m inspired by a West Midlands charity, but our community\u2019s most vulnerable members are being hit the hardestCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLast December I visited a charity that is very close to my heart: Acorns children\u2019s hospice.I had the privilege of chatting, telling stories and reading some [&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-144658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144658","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=144658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}