{"id":116000,"date":"2022-06-25T20:21:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116000"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:21:10","slug":"gatherings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/gatherings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a loner, more comfortable in my own space<br \/>\nthan with others.<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather stay home with a book or movie than<br \/>\ngo out at night with a group.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic reinforced<br \/>\nmy introvert ways<br \/>\nmade me want to stay home<br \/>\neven more. It was safer.<\/p>\n<p>But recently I realized<br \/>\nI also long for contact and shared experiences.<br \/>\nAnd sometimes it is good to gather.<br \/>\nSometimes human laughter and storytelling<br \/>\nis healing.<br \/>\nSometimes a hug or a smile<br \/>\nis energizing.<\/p>\n<p>So moving forward I plan to mix<br \/>\nalone time with<br \/>\ngathering time<br \/>\nand\u00a0weave a comfortable cloth<br \/>\nfrom the two extremes<br \/>\nthat works just for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a loner, more comfortable in my own space than with others. I\u2019d rather stay home with a book or movie than go out at night with a group. The pandemic reinforced my introvert ways made me want to stay home even more. It was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116000","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116037,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116000\/revisions\/116037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}