{"id":105545,"date":"2022-06-15T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=105545"},"modified":"2022-06-15T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T01:02:09","slug":"hello-i-am-esse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hello-i-am-esse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, I am Esse!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My back story in writing begins at age 10, grade four, when I got an E for excellent on a poem called, The Fog. I no longer have a copy of it, but it wasn&#8217;t <em>All That<\/em>! hehe I remember my mom being exceptionally proud of me and I do remember feeling quite pleased. At the time, my aspiration was to be a journalist and travel the globe. I wrote for fun and always looked forward to composition.<\/p>\n<p>We will fast forward <em>many<\/em>, <em>many<\/em>, <strong><em>many<\/em><\/strong> years to 2010 when, out of desperation (details will not be disclosed), I started my own writing company, falling back on what I knew best, aside from management and interior design. Since then, I&#8217;ve published a children&#8217;s book of poetry and haiku, written for a magazine, an ePub called Florida Designer Homes, produced thousands of pieces of collateral content, and produced a number of manuscripts for children&#8217;s lit and adult. I&#8217;m currently working on the formatting and layout of my second book to be published, entitled, <em>The Last Leaf<\/em>. This simple, short story addresses the grief a child experiences upon the loss of loved ones, as well as fear of one&#8217;s own mortality. It&#8217;s beautifully illustrated and I&#8217;m extremely excited and looking forward to launching it.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how difficult this marathon will be and hope I don&#8217;t wimp out!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My back story in writing begins at age 10, grade four, when I got an E for excellent on a poem called, The Fog. I no longer have a copy of it, but it wasn&#8217;t All That! hehe I remember my mom being exceptionally proud&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105545","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\/4414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105546,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105545\/revisions\/105546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}