{"id":24921,"date":"2021-05-18T06:35:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=24921"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T21:20:43","slug":"you-move-too-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=24921","title":{"rendered":"You move too slow"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/health-e.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-20210517-WA0000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"812\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You move too slow<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You move too slow<br \/>I get to hear<br \/>from a greyhead<br \/>behind me<br \/><br \/>not in the pecking order<br \/>not at the feeding trough<br \/>but in a shopping queue<br \/><br \/>You move too slow<br \/>clipping my heels<br \/>as she veers\u00a0<br \/>to the right<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to another queue<br \/>where the grass\u00a0is greener<br \/>and there is more<br \/>on offer<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You move too slow<br \/>the over 60s are urged\u00a0<br \/>(on evening etv news)<br \/>not to rush to centres\u00a0<br \/>for their vaccine shots<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">so I am just<br \/>practising my slowness<br \/>my lack of speed<br \/>or slothfulness even<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">amused once was I<br \/>to hear two queueing locals<br \/>pondering which service<br \/>was the more slothful<br \/>(we won&#8217;t say which)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You move too slow<br \/>could be said to be<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state we are in<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(By David Kapp)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/health-e.org.za\/2021\/05\/18\/nw-elderly-eagerly-wait-to-receive-covid-19-vaccine-jab\/\">Health-e News<\/a> \/ NW Health Department)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You move too slow You move too slowI get to hearfrom a greyheadbehind me not in the pecking ordernot at the feeding troughbut in a shopping queue You move too slowclipping my heelsas she veers\u00a0to the right to another queuewhere the grass\u00a0is greenerand there is moreon offer You move too slowthe over 60s are urged\u00a0(on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[731,83,732],"class_list":["post-24921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-david-kapp","tag-south-africa","tag-the-very-unfortunate","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26052,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24921\/revisions\/26052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}