{"id":126786,"date":"2023-09-02T09:54:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126786"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:54:21","slug":"it-always-seems-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/it-always-seems-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"It Always Seems to Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It always seems to happen<\/p>\n<p>when you think you are prepared<\/p>\n<p>something will go wrong<\/p>\n<p>when everything should go right.<\/p>\n<p>A coffee spill<\/p>\n<p>on your fresh mopped floor;<\/p>\n<p>shattered glass<\/p>\n<p>when you don&#8217;t have time to stop and clean.<\/p>\n<p>makes your blood boil even more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It always seems to happen<\/p>\n<p>nothing goes your way<\/p>\n<p>you think you have it all in control<\/p>\n<p>you are mentally set<\/p>\n<p>and emotionally strong,<\/p>\n<p>but frustrating surprises litter your plate<\/p>\n<p>like stale dried left-overs from yesterday&#8217;s meal.<\/p>\n<p>The computer wants to update<\/p>\n<p>right when you need to start;<\/p>\n<p>the doorbell chimes and the phone rings<\/p>\n<p>adding stress to what was supposed to be<\/p>\n<p>a calm and relaxing day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It always seems to happen<\/p>\n<p>when you don&#8217;t have time to play.<\/p>\n<p>anything that could go wrong<\/p>\n<p>decides to happened just to cause delay.<\/p>\n<p>take a deep breath<\/p>\n<p>and calm your mind.<\/p>\n<p>What seems to be an emergency right now<\/p>\n<p>has to take its place in line.<\/p>\n<p>You can only do what you can do,<\/p>\n<p>so don&#8217;t sweat the unimportant<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s just a part of life unexpected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It always seems to happen when you think you are prepared something will go wrong when everything should go right. A coffee spill on your fresh mopped floor; shattered glass when you don&#8217;t have time to stop and clean. makes your blood boil even more&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1739,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126786","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\/1739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127541,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126786\/revisions\/127541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}