{"id":1017,"date":"2017-11-03T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2018-04-22T22:31:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:31:43","slug":"embarrassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/embarrassed\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-2z-Cd3luqA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hollie McNish.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So no more will I sit on these cold toilet lids<br \/>\nNo matter how embarrassed I feel as she sips<br \/>\nBecause in this country of billboards, covered in tits<br \/>\nI think we should try to get used to this<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Commentary<\/h3>\n<p>A rattling, lilting, lyrical rant at the absurdity of society&#8217;s contradictory attitudes to breasts and breast feeding. Absurd, and desperately frustrating, not only to individuals, but also to anyone who cares about public health.<\/p>\n<p>Hollie McNish achieved a wide audience as a YouTuber before she won the Ted Hughes poetry prize in 2017 for her collection <em>Nobody Told Me<\/em>, &#8216;a verse memoir from the frontline of motherhood\u2019. Previous poems cover racism, boyfriends, adolescence, sex. Always direct, sometimes very moving, McNish argues that her poems aren&#8217;t deep enough to win poetry prizes, but they did. Previously she was UK Slam poetry champion of 2009. Her poetry reads well in print too though. And easily.<\/p>\n<h3>Further info<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KiS8q_fifa0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The poem just read aloud<\/a> to camera (YouTube)<\/li>\n<li>Hollie McNish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCc1tiOnWkOYWqjTPJ0-AnoA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Hollie McNish (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hollie_McNish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>). <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hollie_McNish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interview in 2017<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/breastfeeding-aah-oh\/\">Posy Simmonds cartoon from the 1980s<\/a> shows that we have made less progress than hoped. More in the commentary below that post.<\/li>\n<li>The featured image is a still from the video.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contributed by<\/h3>\n<p>Neil Turner<\/p>\n<h3>Rate this post<\/h3>\n\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0More like this<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollie McNish. So no more will I sit on these cold toilet lids No matter how embarrassed I feel as she sips Because in this country of billboards, covered in tits I think we should try to get used to this Commentary A rattling, lilting, lyrical rant at the absurdity of society&#8217;s contradictory attitudes to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/embarrassed\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[14,16],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obstetrics","tag-poetry","tag-video"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":2,"sum_votes":9},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}