{"id":125595,"date":"2023-08-12T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=125595"},"modified":"2023-08-12T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T17:36:50","slug":"doing-something-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/doing-something-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Something for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a poet and writer, and too often I have to fight for the time to do what&#8217;s important to me, to my identity, to my happiness.  When I carve out time for the half marathon, I&#8217;m doing something that says my work is important. Marathoners, our work is important, the poems that fly and those that stumble. We learn when we stumble.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to twelve hours of reading and writing poetry on September 2, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a poet and writer, and too often I have to fight for the time to do what&#8217;s important to me, to my identity, to my happiness. When I carve out time for the half marathon, I&#8217;m doing something that says my work is important&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125595","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125597,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125595\/revisions\/125597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}