{"id":100390,"date":"2021-06-27T02:33:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100390"},"modified":"2021-06-27T03:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:30:13","slug":"no-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/no-one-2\/","title":{"rendered":"No one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one in this house is awake.<br \/>\nNo one writing poetry.<br \/>\nNo one writing.<br \/>\nNo one awake in bed.<br \/>\nNo one begging for sleep. <\/p>\n<p>Am I begging?<br \/>\nAm I ready to cave, to quit?<br \/>\nAm I ready to flip the switch<br \/>\ndown, lay in darkness,<br \/>\nset an alarm? <\/p>\n<p>No one is setting an alarm. <\/p>\n<p>Should I keep writing?<br \/>\nNo one is writing. <\/p>\n<p>Should I stretch?<br \/>\nNo one is stretching. <\/p>\n<p>Why don\u2019t I care enough?<br \/>\nAm I still competitive?<br \/>\nAm I still that overachieving<br \/>\nchild, distraught over less-than-perfect?<br \/>\nAm I still afraid of not being the best?<\/p>\n<p>No one is afraid of not being the best. <\/p>\n<p>No one is readjusting their glasses.<br \/>\nNo one is listening for the neighbor\u2019s<br \/>\nreturn on his Yamaha.<br \/>\nNo one is watching Khooba<br \/>\ntwitch as he dreams. <\/p>\n<p>Why am I?<\/p>\n<p>They can\u2019t all be winners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one in this house is awake. No one writing poetry. No one writing. No one awake in bed. No one begging for sleep. Am I begging? Am I ready to cave, to quit? Am I ready to flip the switch down, lay in darkness,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100394,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100390\/revisions\/100394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}