{"id":100630,"date":"2021-06-27T03:10:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100630"},"modified":"2021-06-27T03:10:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T07:10:17","slug":"hour-19-a-snapshot-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-19-a-snapshot-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 19:  A Snapshot of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Through the years I have been many things<br \/>\nA child, teenager, adult, daughter, sister, mother.<br \/>\nAs time has passed, I have dipped my hand into<br \/>\nMany different tasks, learning from each.<br \/>\nI have worked hard to make others comfortable<br \/>\nUsing my voice and gentle wit. On the other hand,<br \/>\nI tend to keep to myself, only the thoughts in my head.<br \/>\nIf someone were to see me, they would see<br \/>\nA sense of humour, laughter, a touch of weariness in the eyes.<br \/>\nMixed in with the slight weariness is a gleaming light<br \/>\nA light that shines out to make others smile.<br \/>\nFor ten months out of my year, I work with kiddos<br \/>\nWho need that little extra to be set up for success.<br \/>\nI block and laugh and cry a little, as I see them struggle<br \/>\nI cry a little more as I see them succeed. With each syllable<br \/>\nThat flies from their mouth, my heart overflows a bit more.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the years I have been many things A child, teenager, adult, daughter, sister, mother. As time has passed, I have dipped my hand into Many different tasks, learning from each. I have worked hard to make others comfortable Using my voice and gentle wit&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100630","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100637,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100630\/revisions\/100637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}