{"id":12793,"date":"2015-06-14T02:38:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12793"},"modified":"2015-06-14T02:40:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:40:18","slug":"birds-of-a-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/birds-of-a-feather\/","title":{"rendered":"birds of a feather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>birds of a feather flock together<br \/>\nat least that is what they say<br \/>\nand so it is today &#8211;<br \/>\nall the writers with their paper and pens<br \/>\nIPADS and laptops or any other electronic devices<br \/>\nthey choose to use &#8211;<br \/>\nthey stretch out on chaise lounge chairs, sofas, beds<br \/>\ntrying to write that perfect verse<br \/>\nbut what emerges is a string of words<br \/>\nthat tomorrow will make them doubt their writing skills.<br \/>\nTwenty four hours to be inspired, to hold onto expectations and anxiety;<br \/>\nto feel sleep deprived and hunger<br \/>\nto eat at ungodly hours just to make it through-<br \/>\nbut all the birds who flock together<br \/>\nwho struggle to rise above<br \/>\nthey all will flap their wings<br \/>\nuntil they realize that there is strength in numbers<br \/>\nit is then they will learn that together they can soar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>birds of a feather flock together at least that is what they say and so it is today &#8211; all the writers with their paper and pens IPADS and laptops or any other electronic devices they choose to use &#8211; they stretch out on chaise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12830,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions\/12830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}