{"id":11639,"date":"2015-06-13T22:03:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T02:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=11639"},"modified":"2015-06-13T22:03:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T02:03:38","slug":"here-i-am-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/here-i-am-2\/","title":{"rendered":"here i am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i thought i was hopeless,<br \/>\nwithout direction or purpose<br \/>\nuntil one day i met myself,<br \/>\ncoming around the corner of<br \/>\nmidlife.<br \/>\ni almost bumped into her,<br \/>\ni was so engrossed in thoughts<br \/>\ni can\u2019t now remember.<br \/>\nbut there she was, clear as day,<br \/>\nbright as the sun,<br \/>\nhappy to see me.<br \/>\nand i said, \u201chey, it\u2019s you!\u201d<br \/>\nand this self from beyond midlife<br \/>\nsmiled, made her way around me<br \/>\nwith a little dance in her step,<br \/>\nand said, with a song in her throat,<br \/>\n\u201cget ready, girl,<br \/>\nyour best is yet to come!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i thought i was hopeless, without direction or purpose until one day i met myself, coming around the corner of midlife. i almost bumped into her, i was so engrossed in thoughts i can\u2019t now remember. but there she was, clear as day, bright as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639","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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11655,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639\/revisions\/11655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}