{"id":31348,"date":"2017-08-05T04:18:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T08:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31348"},"modified":"2017-08-05T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:55:07","slug":"sawubona-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/sawubona-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawubona &#8211; Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hello&#8221; in one of our Country&#8217;s 11 official languages \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nMy name is Monique, living in glorious Cape Town, South Africa.<br \/>\nThis is my first poetry marathon and I am hugely&#8230; well&#8230; excited!!!!<br \/>\nI have been writing since before I could walk, speak or think.  I churn poems out on a daily basis and am rather curious to see how I fare in this challenge.<br \/>\nI am a nocturnal writer, and am inclined to be assaulted by a single line, usually 01h00.  I then immediately have to get up, begin writing, enter fugue stage and half an hour later have produced a poem I don&#8217;t recall birthing!  I am trusting this phenomenon will be true to form today and will carry me through \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nNamaste and good luck to everyone!!<br \/>\nMonz xxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hello&#8221; in one of our Country&#8217;s 11 official languages \ud83d\ude42 My name is Monique, living in glorious Cape Town, South Africa. This is my first poetry marathon and I am hugely&#8230; well&#8230; excited!!!! I have been writing since before I could walk, speak or think&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1031,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31348","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\/1031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32873,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31348\/revisions\/32873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}