{"id":136771,"date":"2023-09-02T21:23:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136771"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:23:50","slug":"my-own-path-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/my-own-path-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MY OWN PATH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stare straight ahead reluctant.<br \/>\nI know I should follow the lines,<br \/>\nBut my heart is telling me to go off course.<br \/>\nCreate my own path.<br \/>\nThe choices in life are not always black and white,<br \/>\nWe need to learn it is okay to zig-zag.<br \/>\nWhat is so wrong if we do?<br \/>\nWill the world stop?<br \/>\nWill life cease to exist?<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nOn the contrary.<br \/>\nIt will be better.<br \/>\nIt will reign with beauty,<br \/>\nOoze with style.<br \/>\nIt will have color and distinction,<br \/>\nDrenched in seductive suggestion.<br \/>\nAll because creative minds made their own paths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stare straight ahead reluctant. I know I should follow the lines, But my heart is telling me to go off course. Create my own path. The choices in life are not always black and white, We need to learn it is okay to zig-zag&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136771","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\/5398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137510,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136771\/revisions\/137510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}