{"id":141536,"date":"2023-09-03T05:12:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141536"},"modified":"2023-09-03T05:12:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:12:21","slug":"observing-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/observing-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Observing a Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observing a Writer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She sits hunched, perched<\/p>\n<p>like a bird but ready to pounce<\/p>\n<p>hovering<\/p>\n<p>fingers poised above the keyboard,<\/p>\n<p>waiting to touch the letters<\/p>\n<p>but doesn\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>brow furrowed, lips slightly parted<\/p>\n<p>staring at the white screen before her<\/p>\n<p>but looking right past the page<\/p>\n<p>in another world<\/p>\n<p>and then suddenly<\/p>\n<p>she moves<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>typing faster than imagined<\/p>\n<p>she presses hard on each key<\/p>\n<p>and seemingly randomly \u2013 and magically \u2013<\/p>\n<p>her write page becomes strewn with black<\/p>\n<p>with lips now curled into a smile,<\/p>\n<p>she creates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observing a Writer &nbsp; She sits hunched, perched like a bird but ready to pounce hovering fingers poised above the keyboard, waiting to touch the letters but doesn\u2019t &nbsp; brow furrowed, lips slightly parted staring at the white screen before her but looking right past&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141536","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\/1040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141553,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141536\/revisions\/141553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}