{"id":8473,"date":"2026-05-22T18:33:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=8473"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:58:34","slug":"telephonophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=8473","title":{"rendered":"Telephonophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-8475 size-large\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/telephonophobia-533x800.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/telephonophobia-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/telephonophobia-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/telephonophobia.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-80 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#cfc8c0\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>It\u2019s always been strange to me<br>Irrational illness you cannot perceive<br>Such an innocuous device<br>I struggle to live without<br>Yet still stifles my abilities<br>When sound and light activate<br>Dread consumes my mind<br>Daren\u2019t look down<br>Mustn\u2019t pick up<br>But why?<br>Such an absurd fear!<br>Reluctantly forced to react<br>Rarely the envisaged drama<br>Despite overthinking every breath<br>Petrified by empty pauses<br>Recipient\u2019s obliviousness<br>The inevitable exhaustion that ensues<br>Life force drained again<br>But the ordeal is endured<br>A trial survived<br>I live to fight another day<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-2e1011d367ee7821634e2db90b0db1f4\"><em><em>Original poetry by Jon Arthur 2026<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?page_id=8214\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8214\"><em>M<\/em><\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?page_id=8214\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8214\">ore Poems<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original poetry by Jon Arthur 2026 More Poems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8477,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473\/revisions\/8477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}