{"id":106115,"date":"2022-06-24T19:17:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T23:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106115"},"modified":"2022-06-24T19:17:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T23:17:39","slug":"excited-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/excited-to-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Excited to Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am so happy to have stumbled across the Poetry Marathon, although I&#8217;m doing the half. I have been an intermittent poet since I was in middle school\u00a0 &#8211; MANY decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a dry spell and am looking forward to this structure to get going again!!<\/p>\n<p>I live in Vermont and I&#8217;m retired from\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 human services work. I am a part time.\u00a0 \u00a0 substitute teacher at our local HS,\u00a0 a passionate gardener, and I dabble in watercolors.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also really into looking at the birds that feed near my porch,\u00a0 and I&#8217;m seriously enamored of a Raven pair I&#8217;ve been watching for years.<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling I&#8217;ll be writing about birds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so happy to have stumbled across the Poetry Marathon, although I&#8217;m doing the half. I have been an intermittent poet since I was in middle school\u00a0 &#8211; MANY decades ago. I&#8217;ve had a dry spell and am looking forward to this structure to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106115","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\/4544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106126,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106115\/revisions\/106126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}