{"id":132987,"date":"2023-09-02T15:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132987"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:50:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:50:03","slug":"2023-full-marathon-hour-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/2023-full-marathon-hour-7\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Full Marathon: Hour 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been haunted by things\/ I did not do\/ but should have\/ I was plagued by\/chamomile\/ the very thing\/ I was promised\/ could heal me\/ and I have been tortured by potential.\/\/ The pastel ghosts\/ came from me\/ trying to give a face\/ to my demons\/\u00a0 and evolved into\/ a comfort unlike\/ any other.\/\/ Similar to the\/ sunflower girlies\/ curling their hair\/ pressing on their nails\/ razor sharp\/ and crying in their cars.\/\/ But do not worry\/ we all grow from\/ uncomfortable pasts\/ and mistakes\/ are great lessons.\/\/ Sometimes you just\/ make your best friends\/ in the most\/ unlikely places\/ and at the\/ worst times.\/\/ There is still\/ beauty\/ here.\/\/ -M. Rene&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pastel ghosts are a trend in my personal notebooks that bled into my latest chap book release: How Many Drafts to Home and if you don&#8217;t already have a copy you can find it on Amazon or www.sincerelybluejay.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been haunted by things\/ I did not do\/ but should have\/ I was plagued by\/chamomile\/ the very thing\/ I was promised\/ could heal me\/ and I have been tortured by potential.\/\/ The pastel ghosts\/ came from me\/ trying to give a face\/ to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[5818,2158,4872],"class_list":["post-132987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","tag-5818","tag-full-marathon","tag-sincerelybluejay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132987","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\/4176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133010,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132987\/revisions\/133010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}