{"id":30752,"date":"2017-07-30T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=30752"},"modified":"2017-07-30T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T19:47:15","slug":"another-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/another-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"another introduction ~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all ~<\/p>\n<p>This will be my fourth marathon, although last year&#8217;s was a bust due to a serious family illness. I had to drop out before I really started. I was sooo disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I&#8217;m settled in a new state, in a new chapter of my life. I&#8217;ve been a writer of one sort or another all my life &#8212; primarily poetry, but I also write non-fiction. I&#8217;ve published both, as well as journalism &amp; academic writing. My work background is as\u00a0eclectic as my writing: journalism, academia, the arts &amp; humanities. Writing has been a doorway for me into all kinds of places &amp; jobs.<\/p>\n<p>My plan for this marathon (actually half-marathon; I do\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>function well on no sleep) is\u00a0to just do the prompts. What I found in years 1 &amp; 2 was that I just had to trust the process. Oh &#8212; and have a LOT of good coffee and\/or Thai iced tea to help keep me going!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to poets, and their brilliantly coloured voices!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all ~ This will be my fourth marathon, although last year&#8217;s was a bust due to a serious family illness. I had to drop out before I really started. I was sooo disappointed. This year, I&#8217;m settled in a new state, in a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30752","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30757,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30752\/revisions\/30757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}