{"id":15265,"date":"2015-06-17T12:09:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T16:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=15265"},"modified":"2015-06-17T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T16:09:39","slug":"what-i-learned-doing-a-poetry-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/what-i-learned-doing-a-poetry-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned Doing a Poetry Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The real secret to writing<br \/>\nisn\u2019t a secret<br \/>\nThe pros have been telling you for years<br \/>\nto act on your intentions<br \/>\nand write<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about priorities<br \/>\nIt shouldn\u2019t be the lawn<br \/>\nthat needs mowing<br \/>\nthe laundry<br \/>\nthat needs washing<br \/>\nthe friend<br \/>\nwho needs validation<br \/>\nThe writing comes first<br \/>\nNo excuses<\/p>\n<p>No one faults the business owner<br \/>\nfor doing business<br \/>\nSo no one should fault the artist<br \/>\nfor making art<\/p>\n<p>For me<br \/>\nit has to be<br \/>\nabout thinking<br \/>\nand writing<\/p>\n<p>Forget about what\u2019s for dinner<br \/>\nThere\u2019s always cereal<br \/>\nand canned soup<br \/>\nand some of us thrive<br \/>\non words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real secret to writing isn\u2019t a secret The pros have been telling you for years to act on your intentions and write It\u2019s about priorities It shouldn\u2019t be the lawn that needs mowing the laundry that needs washing the friend who needs validation The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15266,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15265\/revisions\/15266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}