{"id":16842,"date":"2016-08-13T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T12:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=16842"},"modified":"2016-08-13T08:59:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T12:59:21","slug":"virgin-marathon-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/virgin-marathon-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Marathon Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m\u00a0a native New Yorker; born in Brooklyn, brought up in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0started reciting silly little ditties\u00a0as a young child and enjoyed it..<\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0kid brother\u00a0had a\u00a0storyteller at his beck and call. Sadly,\u00a0I never put a word on paper, only whispers in the night for years. I would\u00a0tell my brother\u00a0a story until he fell asleep. I did that every night. Jay, would remind me where I left off and the story would continue. I called\u00a0it, &#8220;The Never Ending Story.&#8221; Years later a movie came out with that title, someday I&#8217;ll get to watch it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0started writing poetry in a composition notebook when I was sixteen. My poetry was life driven. I haven&#8217;t written a poem in over forty years. Shame on me.<\/p>\n<p>This opportunity excites me. I hope it&#8217;s the catalyst that awakens my poetic soul.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun and good luck, everyone.<\/p>\n<p>S.A.M.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m\u00a0a native New Yorker; born in Brooklyn, brought up in the Bronx. I\u00a0started reciting silly little ditties\u00a0as a young child and enjoyed it.. My\u00a0kid brother\u00a0had a\u00a0storyteller at his beck and call. Sadly,\u00a0I never put a word on paper, only whispers in the night for years&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842","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\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17448,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16842\/revisions\/17448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}