{"id":30903,"date":"2017-08-02T18:29:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=30903"},"modified":"2017-08-02T18:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T22:29:12","slug":"intro-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/intro-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Tessa Mountain, and I&#8217;m a young author who hasn&#8217;t written much poetry recently. I usually like to write in prose, so I&#8217;m doing this half-marathon to expand my writing abilities. My end goal is to be able to write poetically, even when I&#8217;m writing in paragraphs. In order to do that, I need more experience writing poetry and using it to tell a story. My style strays pretty often, and I&#8217;m not entirely comfortable with what I write. However, the only way to improve\u00a0is to\u00a0step outside of my comfort zones, so\u00a0I&#8217;m ready to try this out and see what happens. I want to be able to inspire the kind of emotions that I feel when I listen to spoken-word poetry, so I&#8217;ll try to use the same techniques that I hear in my favorite poets (like extended metaphors and imagery).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Tessa Mountain, and I&#8217;m a young author who hasn&#8217;t written much poetry recently. I usually like to write in prose, so I&#8217;m doing this half-marathon to expand my writing abilities. My end goal is to be able to write poetically, even when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903","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\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30915,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30903\/revisions\/30915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}