{"id":530,"date":"2010-05-04T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.d1086250.cp.blacknight.com\/?page_id=530"},"modified":"2017-05-04T14:34:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:34:27","slug":"jean","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/the-outsiders\/jean\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Will you buy me a birthday card? Tomorrow is my birthday, and I won\u2019t get one. The Gardai told me to call up \u2013 they won\u2019t take me in. I enjoyed the bath and the lovely creams \u2013 don\u2019t I look better?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jean, now 50, has been calling to TRUST for years. Her general appearance has changed since she first called, and she now looks like an old woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Special dates still mean something to her &#8211; the day her son made his First Holy Communion \u2013 she now has no contact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">St Patrick\u2019s Day last year, she hammered on the door of the female prison to get in. \u2018Why didn\u2019t they let me in for a bed \u2013 sure they know me well? You are lucky, you\u2019ll all go to heaven.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We, in TRUST, do not apologise for saying we are glad when she is in prison \u2013 she is then safe, comfortable, and well cared for. When there, she writes daily, and letters get clearer as her time moves on. Letters to her partner also arrive \u2013 he also sleeps out. With the few euros she saves when in prison, she buys flowers and chocolates for us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why should prison be the only safe haven for Jean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Will you buy me a birthday card? Tomorrow is my birthday, and I won\u2019t get one. The Gardai told me to call up \u2013 they won\u2019t take me in. I enjoyed the bath and the lovely creams \u2013 don\u2019t I look better?&#8221; Jean, now 50, has been calling to TRUST for years. Her general appearance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/the-outsiders\/jean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jean<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceleahytrust.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}