{"id":106237,"date":"2022-06-24T23:57:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T03:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106237"},"modified":"2022-06-24T23:57:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T03:57:36","slug":"why-a-poetry-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/why-a-poetry-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Poetry Marathon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why a poetry marathon? Because I can&#8217;t run a marathon, nor a half marathon, nor a mile. I can walk. I can write. I attempt to write poetry. I love to read poetry. I did the half last year. I was determined to do the whole shebang this year. It&#8217;s a challenge I set before me. I intend to live up to my expectations. This year I will also read and comment on the efforts of fellow poets; it was encouraging to me and I know I can learn from others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why a poetry marathon? Because I can&#8217;t run a marathon, nor a half marathon, nor a mile. I can walk. I can write. I attempt to write poetry. I love to read poetry. I did the half last year. I was determined to do the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106237","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\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106241,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106237\/revisions\/106241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}