{"id":30837,"date":"2017-08-01T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=30837"},"modified":"2017-08-01T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:10:24","slug":"getting-ready-for-the-big-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/getting-ready-for-the-big-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for the big game&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A warmup of sorts.<br \/>\nLobbing the syllables over my cerebellum.<br \/>\nThrowing junk,<br \/>\njust looking for control.<br \/>\nAfraid to throw my heated stuff<br \/>\nfor fear I would strain a simile<br \/>\nor sprain an analogy.<\/p>\n<p>It makes it hard to have no catcher,<br \/>\nnobody to receive my efforts.<br \/>\nI find this solitary play<br \/>\nhas limits.<br \/>\nIf I tire this easily,<br \/>\nwill I even be ready for the big game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A warmup of sorts. Lobbing the syllables over my cerebellum. Throwing junk, just looking for control. Afraid to throw my heated stuff for fear I would strain a simile or sprain an analogy. It makes it hard to have no catcher, nobody to receive my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30837","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\/736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30838,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30837\/revisions\/30838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}