{"id":141073,"date":"2023-09-03T04:18:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141073"},"modified":"2023-09-03T04:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:18:56","slug":"hour-20-mornings-arent-for-the-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-20-mornings-arent-for-the-weak\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 20: Mornings Aren’t For The Weak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each morning when I wake up, I slowly check the time<\/span><\/p>\n

Try to remember what day it is, even if I heard my alarm chime.<\/span><\/p>\n

I crawl out of bed all bleary-eyed and take care of necessities<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, up to that point, I avoided all complexities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once I finish up on that part of my routine<\/span><\/p>\n

I go to take my dog out, he is a small one and thirteen.<\/span><\/p>\n

We make our way back inside, I make a beeline for the kitchen<\/span><\/p>\n

I tend to be grumbly up to that point, but I refrain from any bitc\u2026griping.<\/span><\/p>\n

As my coffee in the Keurig brews, I feed the dog and cat<\/span><\/p>\n

The cat is usually yowling at me, can you imagine that?<\/span><\/p>\n

I doctor up my coffee, a little sugar and some cream<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, I can sit, this is where I begin to scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think about what my day holds, work or is it a weekend?<\/span><\/p>\n

If it is work, I gulp my drink for my energy to spend.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each morning when I wake up, I slowly check the time Try to remember what day it is, even if I heard my alarm chime. I crawl out of bed all bleary-eyed and take care of necessities Honestly, up to that point, I avoided all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141073","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141081,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141073\/revisions\/141081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}