{"id":11579,"date":"2015-06-13T21:40:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=11579"},"modified":"2015-06-13T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:41:18","slug":"13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/13\/","title":{"rendered":"#13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago I was lost.<br \/>\nI was on a path that<br \/>\nhad betrayed me.<br \/>\nThe star I followed<br \/>\ngrew dimmer in my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago I stood<br \/>\non a road, facing two<br \/>\npaths ahead of me.<br \/>\nAnd while many would<br \/>\nsee them as leading<br \/>\nto the same direction,<br \/>\nI knew the difference<br \/>\nall too well.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago I<br \/>\nmade a choice.<br \/>\nOne road was too familiar,<br \/>\nthe easy one to take.<br \/>\nThe other &#8211; new, unmapped.<br \/>\nA challenge. And I took it.<\/p>\n<p>I travel it<br \/>\nnot looking back.<br \/>\nIt brought me here.<br \/>\nStill walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago I was lost. I was on a path that had betrayed me. The star I followed grew dimmer in my eyes. Three years ago I stood on a road, facing two paths ahead of me. And while many would see them as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[331,23,332,834],"class_list":["post-11579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-choices","tag-life","tag-path","tag-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11579","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\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11626,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11579\/revisions\/11626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}