{"id":106292,"date":"2022-06-25T02:55:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T06:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106292"},"modified":"2022-06-25T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T06:56:08","slug":"106292","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/106292\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings fellow Marathoners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Eilidh (pronounced Airlie to rhyme with fairly, rarely and rarely).<\/p>\n<p>I live in Western Australia so for me the marathon starts at 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>I have been writing poetry since I was about 8. I realise that I have been alive in 9 different decades so I have a bit to say. I don&#8217;t write in one style, although these days I prefer haiku and despite my note about pronouncing my name I am not a great fan of rhyme &#8211; unless I am writing a sonnet. I do like alliteration though.<\/p>\n<p>I shall prepare for the Marathon by having a new notebook and a filled fountain pen on my desk because I am old fashioned in this sense at least.<\/p>\n<p>I shall also prepare by having a snooze before the marathon starts. At 73 years I am not sure I can do 24 hours, although it is only ten years since I pulled one of my frequent all-nighters in order to get a paper or lecture written, so here is hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, My name is Eilidh (pronounced Airlie to rhyme with fairly, rarely and rarely). I live in Western Australia so for me the marathon starts at 9pm. I have been writing poetry since I was about 8. I realise that I have been alive in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106292","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\/4349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106300,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106292\/revisions\/106300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}