{"id":30777,"date":"2017-07-30T23:38:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T03:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=30777"},"modified":"2017-07-30T23:38:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T03:38:44","slug":"2k17-the-re-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/2k17-the-re-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"2k17, The Re-Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My real life began a few short days ago when I became a grandmother for the first time. I&#8217;ve had practice as a &#8220;step-step grandparent to 4 boys. I am married to the love of my life and have three grown children. I am a supervisor of special education programs in Cadillac, Michigan. \u00a0I would retire, except I honestly cannot think of a better or more rewarding profession.<\/p>\n<p>This is my third poetry marathon and although I still cringe at my early morning poems, they have provided a springboard for some amazing creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Although I can&#8217;t remember a time that I didn&#8217;t write, I have come into my own through the poetry marathon and subsequent poetry group, Some Poets. I am producing a one night poetry reading on September 30th for the &#8220;Night of 100 Thousand Poets&#8221; non-profit group for social change. (If you are going to be in the Cadillac area on 9\/30, please let me know. There is mic time available.)<\/p>\n<p>Life is wonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My real life began a few short days ago when I became a grandmother for the first time. I&#8217;ve had practice as a &#8220;step-step grandparent to 4 boys. I am married to the love of my life and have three grown children. I am a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30778,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30777\/revisions\/30778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}