{"id":30863,"date":"2017-08-01T19:23:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T23:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=30863"},"modified":"2017-08-01T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T23:24:15","slug":"30863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/30863\/","title":{"rendered":"I Live from East to West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Dallas for about 30 years. Moved to Indianapolis and got my degree in English (Creative Writing) at IU. Then I moved back to Dallas, then to MA, then to NH, and now back to IN as both a spiritual journey and a curse of an unfortunate economy.<\/p>\n<p>I write. I ramble. I ramble when I write. I drool when I write, too. Especially if I write something that bypasses my own inner-critic (AKA insecurity). I am hardcore into themes regarding sexuality and human nature (good and bad), and I tend to try to relate to these topics via food and the processes of cooking. There&#8217;s something spiritual about cooking. And there&#8217;s something relatable about food and humanity: it connects all the people from all the world from all the times, especially when the old traditions still fire up our modern grills.<\/p>\n<p>I am a patterns person, so I am prone to find them quickly, and I incorporate them subconsciously. I am a fan of Gertrude Stein. I am also probably the only person who&#8217;s ever laughed while reading As I Lay Dying (having decided the book was dark humor over anything else).<\/p>\n<p>I am definitely not for everyone; sometimes not even for myself!<\/p>\n<p>I have to be cliche here: my plan for this thing is coffee and naps and friendly cattle prods from a fellow participant. \u00a0I fear most my tendency to fall prey to a nap and awaken at another time and place (time, really). \u00a0But I also fear having a sleepy haze as my muse nearer the end of the ordeal. \u00a0That said, creativity can come greatest during moments of depravity and delusion, when we&#8217;re least connected to the immediate world around us.<\/p>\n<p>This must be why so many glorified writers have (\/had) substance abuse problems.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am that guy. \u00a0Macabre, surreal, and too honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dallas for about 30 years. Moved to Indianapolis and got my degree in English (Creative Writing) at IU. Then I moved back to Dallas, then to MA, then to NH, and now back to IN as both a spiritual journey and a curse of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1068,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30863","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\/1068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30865,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30863\/revisions\/30865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}