{"id":28559,"date":"2016-08-14T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=28559"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:24:29","slug":"you-are-almost-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/you-are-almost-there\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Almost There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28727\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Poet-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Poet\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Poet-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Poet-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Poet-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Poet.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>almost there, almost here<\/p>\n<p>where I am almost<\/p>\n<p>finished with the words,<\/p>\n<p>finished with the heat,<\/p>\n<p>finished with the dark<\/p>\n<p>solitary journey.<\/p>\n<p>not so dark<\/p>\n<p>traveled with Carmen Miranda,<\/p>\n<p>with a friend who cheered for me on email,<\/p>\n<p>with a friend who called to say<\/p>\n<p>she has a job interview on Monday,<\/p>\n<p>she won&#8217;t see me on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>strangers stayed on the same trip<\/p>\n<p>or maybe it was a different trip.<\/p>\n<p>it is morning now<\/p>\n<p>and I am almost at the end,<\/p>\n<p>one more to go.<\/p>\n<p>I will not do this again,<\/p>\n<p>too hard this time around,<\/p>\n<p>maybe after resting for a year<\/p>\n<p>the Marathon will call me<\/p>\n<p>like a flame haired Siren.<\/p>\n<p>Join us, she whispers, and the<\/p>\n<p>whisper grows louder,<\/p>\n<p>and the poetry grows<\/p>\n<p>louder and perhaps I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; almost there, almost here where I am almost finished with the words, finished with the heat, finished with the dark solitary journey. not so dark traveled with Carmen Miranda, with a friend who cheered for me on email, with a friend who called to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28559","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28728,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28559\/revisions\/28728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}