{"id":126607,"date":"2023-09-02T07:57:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T11:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126607"},"modified":"2023-09-02T07:57:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T11:57:57","slug":"introduction-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/introduction-107\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone. I am Arvinder Kaur from Chandigarh India. A former Professor of English Literature and Media Studies I developed a passion for the Japanese short forms while still in service. I started writing in my native language first as I felt that I owe a debt to my mother tongue. Gradually I moved to writing in English the second language that is close to my heart. I have published a few books in all these years.<\/p>\n<p>I love the jacaranda blossoms and find the sunsets very evocative. I heard about the marathon from my friend Shloka Shankar. So happy to be here. Looking forward to the marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone. I am Arvinder Kaur from Chandigarh India. A former Professor of English Literature and Media Studies I developed a passion for the Japanese short forms while still in service. I started writing in my native language first as I felt that I owe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4997,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126607","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\/4997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126623,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126607\/revisions\/126623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}