{"id":16307,"date":"2016-07-28T22:50:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T02:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=16307"},"modified":"2016-07-28T22:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T02:50:32","slug":"greeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/greeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Greeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Fellow Poets,<\/p>\n<p>I am watching the Democratic National Convention speeches at this moment and cannot think of another activity that reflects my interests. I am a political writer and believe that &#8220;the personal is political.&#8221; My writing blurs the personal\/political spectrum and dives deeper into how people connect to one another through loss. I am an out Lesbian Feminist and admire poet Adrienne Rich.<\/p>\n<p>Logistically&#8211; I am a 27 year old lesbian graduate student whose childhood was rooted in poverty. My experiences influence my writing and I find much comfort when I write poems.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to this marathon, love challenging myself, and cannot wait to succeed in writing 24 poems in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that everyone is approaching this marathon with the same optimism. Looking forward to pushing through to the end with you all!<\/p>\n<p>I have already stocked up on coffee! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Meneray<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Fellow Poets, I am watching the Democratic National Convention speeches at this moment and cannot think of another activity that reflects my interests. I am a political writer and believe that &#8220;the personal is political.&#8221; My writing blurs the personal\/political spectrum and dives deeper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307","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\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16309,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307\/revisions\/16309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}