{"id":28682,"date":"2016-08-14T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=28682"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:20:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:20:01","slug":"going-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/going-solo\/","title":{"rendered":"Going solo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">the lot in life for a writer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">solitary time savored<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">the attraction<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">lost on others not so<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">infected<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">alone is not lonely<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">my companions the ideas<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">in my head, struggling<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">to make their way<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">to freedom through<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">fingers artfully<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">laying them across<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">blank pages<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">remaining denizens of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">the house sleep,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">the dogs don\u2019t wait up,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">but will arise early to<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">join morning sessions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">feeling some sense<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">of completion<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I can close up my<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">notebook, shut down<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">my laptop<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">and with satisfaction,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">wait for the world<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">to come to me<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Mark L. Lucker<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 2016<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the lot in life for a writer solitary time savored the attraction lost on others not so infected alone is not lonely my companions the ideas in my head, struggling to make their way to freedom through fingers artfully laying them across blank pages remaining&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,1],"tags":[2082,1102,2081,2080,1120],"class_list":["post-28682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-eebeda-eebeda-eebeda-thats-all-folks","tag-hour-24-prompt","tag-lats-prompt","tag-prompt-twenty-four","tag-the-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28682","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28704,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28682\/revisions\/28704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}