{"id":6943,"date":"2014-10-20T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T09:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=6943"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:38:41","slug":"the-hard-word-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/the-hard-word-box\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hard Word Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013 poet Sarah Hesketh spent 20 weeks visiting a residential care home for people with dementia. The agility of Hesketh&#8217;s poetic voice channels moments of tenderness, suffering and humour, revealing dementia as a negotiation with language and silence. <em>The Hard Word Box<\/em> is an inventive and compassionate meditation on the things that will be lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hard Word Box is a book of poems and verbatim interviews that takes the reader on a surprising and enriching journey through memory and imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[173,4,29,15],"tags":[161,163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6943"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17087,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions\/17087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}