{"id":126696,"date":"2023-09-02T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126696"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:01:53","slug":"introduction-109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/introduction-109\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello!<\/p>\n<p>My name is Dee and I&#8217;m grateful to be here!<\/p>\n<p>Today I am focusing on the quote &#8220;Do the verb rather than trying to be the noun&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at the tail end of the 3rd most difficult summer of my life (so far), but in the best way possible? They have been difficult because I got sick of masquerading, and went searching for a more authentic self. Poetry and a some other forms of art exist in a part of my brain that I&#8217;d spent a long time hiding, and now it&#8217;s the part of my brain I am spending the most effort on loving.<\/p>\n<p>This comes with getting diagnosed with ADHD, and Complex PTSD, and coming out more thoroughly. I am Queer, with a whole host of other labels that feel good (transmasculine, nonbinary, genderqueer, gay, bisexual, pansexual, demisexual). I am chaotic, and food motivated, and sad, and joyful, and I&#8217;m excited to share more through my words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! My name is Dee and I&#8217;m grateful to be here! Today I am focusing on the quote &#8220;Do the verb rather than trying to be the noun&#8221; I&#8217;m at the tail end of the 3rd most difficult summer of my life (so far), but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126696","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\/5396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126789,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126696\/revisions\/126789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}