{"id":279,"date":"2020-05-08T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebird.me\/?p=279"},"modified":"2020-05-08T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:26:49","slug":"ve-day-veterans-abandoned-to-die-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"VE Day veterans abandoned to die of Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>It feels as if VE Day veterans have been abandoned to die in care homes, because of 10 years of austerity cuts and privatisation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They should be cared for in Rainbow\/Nightingale or established hospitals. But they&#8217;re not because some temporary hospitals are still not ready and there are not the staff needed anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were totally unprepared because of a decade of profiteering and cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A political choice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebird.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FB_IMG_1588968168365.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-278\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels as if VE Day veterans have been abandoned to die in care homes, because of 10 years of austerity cuts and privatisation. They should be cared for in Rainbow\/Nightingale or established hospitals. But they&#8217;re not because some temporary hospitals are still not ready and there are not the staff needed anyway. We were&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/?p=279\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VE Day veterans abandoned to die of Covid-19<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikes-comments","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}