{"id":320,"date":"2017-07-05T07:29:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T06:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/?p=320"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:38:19","slug":"white-snow-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/white-snow-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad news: an unexpected slip in the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It was as the snow started falling<br \/>\nthat she blurted it out<\/p>\n<p>not meant for the kids, not meant for here,<br \/>\nfor the snowwoman with her pink hat<br \/>\nand old carrot nose,<\/p>\n<p>And once it was out<br \/>\nshe wished she could call it back in,<br \/>\nlike a dog you could whistle to,<br \/>\nbut it wouldn\u2019t, you couldn\u2019t<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Extract from <em>Snow<\/em>, by Sarah Broom. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahbroom.co.nz\/section-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full (short) poem Snow<\/a> .<\/p>\n<h3>Commentary<\/h3>\n<p>Sarah Broom was a New Zealand poet who found she had lung cancer when pregnant with her third child in 2008. She died in 2013.\u00a0 She said that this poem was written before she knew her diagnosis. If so, it feels as if she was anticipating it.<\/p>\n<p>Her poem Ward 64 (from Tigers at Awhitu, Oxford Poets \/ Carcanet Press Ltd, 2010) is featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk\/shop\/favourites\/tools-of-the-trade-poems-for-new-doctors-3rd-edition\/\">Tools of the Trade<\/a>, a short book of poems given to all new doctors graduating in Scotland.<\/p>\n<h3>Further info<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahbroom.co.nz\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Broom<\/a> (her website)<\/li>\n<li>Image: snow angel (ANT, CC-BY)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk\/shop\/pocket-poetry\/tools-of-the-trade-poems-for-new-doctors-3rd-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tools of the Trade<\/a> &#8211; poems for new doctors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contributed by<\/h3>\n<p>Neil Turner<\/p>\n<h3>Rate this post<\/h3>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>More like this<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/poetry-all-over-the-walls\/\">Sarah Broom: Ward 64<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was as the snow started falling that she blurted it out not meant for the kids, not meant for here, for the snowwoman with her pink hat and old carrot nose, And once it was out she wished she could call it back in, like a dog you could whistle to, but it wouldn\u2019t, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/white-snow-bad-news\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"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":"BlogPosting","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33],"tags":[62,4,14],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-death","category-oncology","tag-bad-news","tag-patient-experience","tag-poetry"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":1,"sum_votes":5},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}