{"id":105276,"date":"2022-06-01T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=105276"},"modified":"2022-06-21T18:31:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T22:31:43","slug":"sign-up-for-the-2022-poetry-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/sign-up-for-the-2022-poetry-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign up for the 2022 Poetry Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105277\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-project7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-project7.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-project7-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-project7-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/My-project7-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sign up is now open for the 2022 Poetry Marathon! You can sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdL7FtAowjF4gA-22Nwi3s8tPADmPawEUAMhd-opUcjOs7Nuw\/viewform\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2022 Poetry Marathon starts at 9 AM ET on Saturday June 25th and will go till 9 AM ET on Sunday the 26th of June.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are interested in doing a half marathon start at 9 AM ET on June 25th and go till 9 PM on the 25th. Or they can start at 9 PM ET on the 25th and continue to 9 AM on the 26th, which works better for some time zones.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the poetry marathon is to write and post one poem an hour for 24 hours. Half marathoners post a poem per hour for a 12 hour period.<\/p>\n<p>This is an international event with participants from all around the globe. Generally 500 people attempt the marathon. You do not have to be a poet to participate. To find out how to convert your timezone go<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/converter.html\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To learn more go <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To sign up go <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdL7FtAowjF4gA-22Nwi3s8tPADmPawEUAMhd-opUcjOs7Nuw\/viewform\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in participating please sign up by June 19th! We will get back to applicants on a rolling basis. Most people who apply will be accepted. If you have not heard from us by the 19th of June please send us an email at poets@thepoetrymarathon.com. Please do not try and contact us through the FB page. We will make sure everyone who contacts us, gets an opportunity to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up is now open for the 2022 Poetry Marathon! You can sign up here. The 2022 Poetry Marathon starts at 9 AM ET on Saturday June 25th and will go till 9 AM ET on Sunday the 26th of June. Those who are interested&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105276","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105656,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105276\/revisions\/105656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}