{"id":838,"date":"2021-04-26T15:57:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=838"},"modified":"2021-07-13T20:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:59:42","slug":"paper-trail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=838","title":{"rendered":"Paper Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(A pensioners&#8217;s lament)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Across the floor and up the stairs,<br \/>\nthey fall from steps and lie on chairs,<br \/>\nletters, bills, and leaflets on pensions.<br \/>\neach one precious, needing attention,<br \/>\nNotes to ourselves about coming events<br \/>\nsome lying ahead, most already spent.<\/p>\n<p>Memos are pinned to our notice board,<br \/>\ngathering dust as they&#8217;re often ignored;<br \/>\ntimetables for buses running last year,<br \/>\ntourist attractions, now over I fear.<br \/>\nWhy do we keep all this paper clutter?<br \/>\nIn case we need it, I vainly mutter.<\/p>\n<p>Notebooks abound, by telephones,<br \/>\nto record the content, not just the bones,<br \/>\nof every message that pours in gaily<br \/>\nfrom family and friends ,reporting daily.<br \/>\nAll the activities while in lockdown-<br \/>\nwhich is not a lot when you&#8217;re all alone.<\/p>\n<p>Electronic recording is not our thing.<br \/>\nWe much prefer paper, just like string;<br \/>\na throwback to an an age of writing<br \/>\nletters not emails, far more exciting.<br \/>\nNow its digital madness more or less,<br \/>\nquite impersonal and far more stress.<\/p>\n<p>So, our lives exist, written on a note;<br \/>\na paper trail of memories, that float<br \/>\ninto consciousness, then disappear<br \/>\nas we quickly forget they are here.<br \/>\nOld age is the apex of life they state<br \/>\nI agree, but do you know today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s date?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=841\">NEXT POEM &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>(A pensioners&#8217;s lament)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Across the floor and up the stairs,<br \/>\nthey fall from steps and lie on chairs,<br \/>\nletters, bills, and leaflets on pensions.<br \/>\neach one precious, needing attention,<br \/>\nNotes to ourselves about coming events<br \/>\nsome lying ahead, most already spent.<\/p>\n<p>Memos are pinned to our notice board,<br \/>\ngathering dust as they&#8217;re often&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"margintop-large margintop-xlarge-l clear-both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=838#s\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paper Trail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-838","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/838\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}