{"id":119201,"date":"2022-06-26T08:31:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119201"},"modified":"2022-06-26T08:36:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:36:39","slug":"destiny-hour-twenty-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/destiny-hour-twenty-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Destiny &#8211; Hour Twenty-Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still recall the email<br \/>\nAn invitation of a lifetime<br \/>\nA chance to meet a top tier publisher<br \/>\nHer people reached out to me<br \/>\nI felt instant elation and sorrow<br \/>\nI had no way of getting to the meeting<br \/>\nIt was a time before ride-sharing services<br \/>\nAnd no one from my area was going<br \/>\nI had to admit it to myself that it was not happening<br \/>\nI had to tell them thanks, but no<\/p>\n<p>The day of the meeting, my heart sank<br \/>\nI so wanted to be there &#8211; to have had the opportunity to say yes<br \/>\nTo have gone<br \/>\nBut hours after that meeting had happened,<br \/>\nI met my now husband online<br \/>\nHad I gone to the meeting, I likely would not have met him<br \/>\nLooking back now, as much as that publisher meeting meant<br \/>\nI now realize that destiny had other plans<br \/>\nI would change the life I have now for nothing in this world<br \/>\nEven top tier publishers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still recall the email An invitation of a lifetime A chance to meet a top tier publisher Her people reached out to me I felt instant elation and sorrow I had no way of getting to the meeting It was a time before ride-sharing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[4906,5487,5489,1806,3456,5488,5486,5485,5490],"class_list":["post-119201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2022fullmarathon","tag-chance-meeting-poetry","tag-destiny-poems","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-poems-about-fate","tag-story-poems","tag-true-story-poems","tag-yes-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119201","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119272,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119201\/revisions\/119272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}