{"id":126011,"date":"2023-08-31T14:42:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126011"},"modified":"2023-08-31T14:42:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:42:17","slug":"introduction-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/introduction-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings everyone!<\/p>\n<p>My name is Sarena and I hope you&#8217;re all as excited as I am to push through and complete this marathon! It&#8217;s my first time participating in The Poetry Marathon or any poetry challenge really. A handful of friends, my lovely boyfriend and I will try and keep each other accountable throughout the full 24 hours of the challenge (along with some yummy snacks).<\/p>\n<p>As for my experience with the poetry scene, I casually write and enjoy this form of expression. I first started writing poetry with the encouragement of my Conflicts&#8217; professor, which soon snowballed into me becoming the host of the on-campus poetry show, Verse Come Verse Serve! My time during college solidified my love for poetry and I can&#8217;t wait to see what comes next!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>Sarena<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings everyone! My name is Sarena and I hope you&#8217;re all as excited as I am to push through and complete this marathon! It&#8217;s my first time participating in The Poetry Marathon or any poetry challenge really. A handful of friends, my lovely boyfriend and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126011","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\/5300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126012,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126011\/revisions\/126012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}