{"id":128266,"date":"2023-09-02T10:34:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128266"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:34:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:34:33","slug":"ten-years-ago-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/ten-years-ago-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ten Years Ago<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thinking of ten years ago makes<\/p>\n<p>me think of ten years from now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been spinning around this globe<\/p>\n<p>for seventy five years and notice that<\/p>\n<p>its speed seems to be picking up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m on a carousel, trying to grab a ring<\/p>\n<p>that\u2019s getting harder to grasp because<\/p>\n<p>the prizes that seemed within reach<\/p>\n<p>are starting to fade from view.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Africa, New Zealand, India, Vietnam are<\/p>\n<p>places I can visit but probably not all of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t do everything I once thought I might.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to grasp a world without<\/p>\n<p>maybe I\u2019ll go there somedays<\/p>\n<p>or maybe I\u2019ll do that somedays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe my fear of missing out is<\/p>\n<p>pitting myself against my desires.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should listen to the fire in<\/p>\n<p>my belly that looks for art in everything<\/p>\n<p>and shines a light on where to go<\/p>\n<p>as it puts my mind to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Ten Years Ago \u00a0 Thinking of ten years ago makes me think of ten years from now. &nbsp; I\u2019ve been spinning around this globe for seventy five years and notice that its speed seems to be picking up. &nbsp; I\u2019m on a carousel, trying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128266","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128270,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128266\/revisions\/128270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}