{"id":25806,"date":"2016-08-13T23:11:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=25806"},"modified":"2016-08-13T23:11:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:11:33","slug":"courage-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/courage-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage\/ Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"

Training for my first 5k<\/span><\/p>\n

Running for the first time<\/span><\/p>\n

Building stamina<\/span><\/p>\n

Fighting the fear<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Growing through the process<\/span><\/p>\n

Becoming more confident<\/span><\/p>\n

Gaining strength<\/span><\/p>\n

Facing the challenges<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like many things in life<\/span><\/p>\n

I was afraid<\/span><\/p>\n

Of being embarrassed <\/span><\/p>\n

Of failing<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a personal thing<\/span><\/p>\n

Working to achieve a goal<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of my training<\/span><\/p>\n

I adopted a mantra<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read in a book about running<\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote the initials daily<\/span><\/p>\n

On the inside of my wrist<\/span><\/p>\n

It sticks with me still<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

EAMOF-Excuses Are Made of Fear<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Training for my first 5k Running for the first time Building stamina Fighting the fear \u00a0 Growing through the process Becoming more confident Gaining strength Facing the challenges \u00a0 Like many things in life I was afraid Of being embarrassed Of failing \u00a0 It is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25806","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\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25819,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25806\/revisions\/25819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}