{"id":19315,"date":"2016-08-13T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19315"},"modified":"2016-08-13T13:15:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:15:42","slug":"not-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/not-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Not For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somedays I think I&#8217;ll quit<\/p>\n<p>and become a plumber<\/p>\n<p>or a chef<\/p>\n<p>or a florist<\/p>\n<p>maybe writing just isn&#8217;t for me<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I can arrange sweet peonies and yellow daisies better than I can arrange 26 letters<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I can unclog pipes better than I can write through a block<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I can prepare a 7-course meal better than I can prepare a poem for you to read<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then I am reminded at 3 am when the words are buzzing in my head, trapping themselves in my mouth, cutting my tongue like a razor blade, begging to be released on paper<\/p>\n<p>That I am a writer<\/p>\n<p>and there is nothing else out there for me<\/p>\n<p>and there never was<\/p>\n<p>or will be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somedays I think I&#8217;ll quit and become a plumber or a chef or a florist maybe writing just isn&#8217;t for me Maybe I can arrange sweet peonies and yellow daisies better than I can arrange 26 letters Or maybe I can unclog pipes better than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315","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\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30046,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions\/30046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}