{"id":23245,"date":"2016-08-13T18:01:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23245"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:01:36","slug":"introduction-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/introduction-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I?<br \/>\nI\u2019m Jean Valjean<\/p>\n<p>No, wait, that\u2019s not right<\/p>\n<p>Who am I?<br \/>\nI am Inigo Montoya, you killed<\/p>\n<p>No, stop that<br \/>\nThis isn\u2019t kitsch it\u2019s a statement of being<\/p>\n<p>Who am I?<br \/>\nI guess I don\u2019t know<\/p>\n<p>I am a writer<br \/>\nWho struggles to write<br \/>\nI am a photographer<br \/>\nWith nothing to photograph<br \/>\nI am a lover<br \/>\nWithout a person to love<br \/>\nI am a wanderer<br \/>\nWithout the means to wander<\/p>\n<p>Who am I?<\/p>\n<p>I am a lost and frightened thing<br \/>\nToo old to be finding myself<br \/>\nAnd too young to be this bitter<br \/>\nI\u2019m a woman of 33 with a college degree<br \/>\nAnd no career to show for it<br \/>\nWith student loans that I have yet to pay off<br \/>\nFor an education I cannot use<br \/>\nI\u2019ve had fourteen jobs<br \/>\nAnd never made more than eleven an hour<\/p>\n<p>I am depressed<br \/>\nI am crushed<br \/>\nI am afraid<\/p>\n<p>But not all the time<br \/>\nNo<br \/>\nNot all the time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I? I\u2019m Jean Valjean No, wait, that\u2019s not right Who am I? I am Inigo Montoya, you killed No, stop that This isn\u2019t kitsch it\u2019s a statement of being Who am I? I guess I don\u2019t know I am a writer Who struggles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":905,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245","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\/905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23294,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23245\/revisions\/23294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}