{"id":105877,"date":"2022-06-23T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T02:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=105877"},"modified":"2022-06-23T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T02:50:09","slug":"introduction-year-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/introduction-year-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction, year 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been eight years since the first time I journeyed through a marathon in 2014.\u00a0 I&#8217;m ready and excited for the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Angel. I&#8217;m 28 and living in Pennsylvania. I&#8217;ve been writing for all of my life, especially the last ten years. My second book, Blake, came out in April and it was Amazon&#8217;s best-selling poetry book by a woman &amp; a LGBTQIA+ poetry book for a few days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m autistic and I live with depression and OCD.\u00a0 Both of my dogs passed away in the last six weeks.\u00a0 They were my greatest loves and I am working on figuring out the meaning of life without dogs.<\/p>\n<p>My best friend is moving away in a few weeks.\u00a0 I expect I will be focusing on grief poems.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for making space for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been eight years since the first time I journeyed through a marathon in 2014.\u00a0 I&#8217;m ready and excited for the challenge. &nbsp; I&#8217;m Angel. I&#8217;m 28 and living in Pennsylvania. I&#8217;ve been writing for all of my life, especially the last ten years. My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105877","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105881,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105877\/revisions\/105881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}