{"id":18263,"date":"2016-08-13T10:23:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18263"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:24:20","slug":"just-because-i-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/just-because-i-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Because I Write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   the world doesn&#8217;t stop for me.<br \/>\nThe kids call.<br \/>\nMy husband gets hungry.<br \/>\nThe chickens need clean water and hay.<br \/>\nI come home from work worn thin.<\/p>\n<p>All day and into the night<br \/>\nI write lines in my head,<br \/>\nleave notebooks lying around everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Distracted, they say.<br \/>\nYes, by the world.<br \/>\nNot by the words<br \/>\nand ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Oliver said,<br \/>\nand I believe her,<br \/>\nthat for a writer,<br \/>\nit is the writing that matters.<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;ll keep thinking,<br \/>\ncomposing poems,<br \/>\ncreating characters and plots,<br \/>\nscribbling ideas and snippets in those notebooks,<\/p>\n<p>even as the world comes streaming<br \/>\nthrough my door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the world doesn&#8217;t stop for me. The kids call. My husband gets hungry. The chickens need clean water and hay. I come home from work worn thin. All day and into the night I write lines in my head, leave notebooks lying around everywhere. Distracted,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18263","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=18263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18492,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18263\/revisions\/18492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}