{"id":14869,"date":"2022-10-15T14:44:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T13:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/blind-spot\/"},"modified":"2022-10-15T14:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T13:44:20","slug":"blind-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/blind-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1babebb6e3082b7c74215afaef8a900c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1babebb6e3082b7c74215afaef8a900c.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1babebb6e3082b7c74215afaef8a900c-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1babebb6e3082b7c74215afaef8a900c-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1babebb6e3082b7c74215afaef8a900c-10x10.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Blind Spot<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Paul Francis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s had to ditch that school job, which she loved;<br \/>some supermarket shifts will pay the bills. <br \/>She\u2019s haunted by the story of a kid<br \/>who mimes that he is eating, every day,<br \/>taking an empty lunchbox into school. <br \/>And on the news, this big man in a suit<br \/>says he\u2019ll be cutting taxes on the rich.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks he sees it all. He can\u2019t see her<br \/>because he\u2019s focussed on the nods and smiles<br \/>as donors pat his back, congratulate <br \/>their prot\u00e9g\u00e9, and top up his champagne.<br \/>There will be turbulence, but he\u2019ll maintain<br \/>this course. He tells them what they want to hear.<br \/>\u201cIt\u2019s just the start. There will be more to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blind Spot by Paul Francis She\u2019s had to ditch that school job, which she loved;some supermarket shifts will pay the bills. She\u2019s haunted by the story of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":14868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2682,2638],"class_list":["post-14869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-kwasi-kwarteng","tag-liz-truss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}