{"id":19796,"date":"2016-08-13T12:26:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19796"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:26:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:26:50","slug":"writing-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/writing-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Writing Woes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Talk to the blank page, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As if it were an old friend. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Great writing should set the stage,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hurry, lets get started, and begin. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I sit in my chair, poised and ready for action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My blue pen rests on the kitchen table. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Writing always gives me pleasure and satisfaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But, try as I might, I cannot think of what I am able.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Write about the time you and Grandma went to Vegas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or, write about your last big move. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think\u2026.Okay, that trip was outrageous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I began typing, I.m back in the groove.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I love stringing words and sentences together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To make paragraphs turn into a story. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oops. \u00a0I\u2019m slowing down, stuck forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I will try to finish this book when I am forty. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing Woes &nbsp; Talk to the blank page, As if it were an old friend. \u00a0 Great writing should set the stage, Hurry, lets get started, and begin. \u00a0 &nbsp; I sit in my chair, poised and ready for action. My blue pen rests on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":921,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796","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\/921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19828,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19796\/revisions\/19828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}