{"id":105582,"date":"2022-06-19T00:53:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T04:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=105582"},"modified":"2022-06-19T00:53:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T04:53:25","slug":"introduction-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/introduction-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">I write because I have to. I share because watching people connect and resonate fuels me. Making my words available means everything <\/span><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DfpHThdghx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">http:\/\/<\/span>linktr.ee\/thepoet_rajah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This event is really just an excuse to get my voice out there and see what I can do when I put my mind to a certain task. Especially one that looks so daunting in the beginning. Also my editor says it&#8217;ll be good for me. So here we are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-105583 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/June_25-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/June_25-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/June_25-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/June_25-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/June_25-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/June_25.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write because I have to. I share because watching people connect and resonate fuels me. Making my words available means everything http:\/\/linktr.ee\/thepoet_rajah &nbsp; This event is really just an excuse to get my voice out there and see what I can do when I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2114],"tags":[4879,1162,4878,630],"class_list":["post-105582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","category-official-marathon-announcement","tag-first-try","tag-introduction","tag-the-poet-rajah","tag-the-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105582","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\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105584,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105582\/revisions\/105584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}