{"id":38600,"date":"2017-08-05T21:06:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38600"},"modified":"2017-08-05T21:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T01:06:21","slug":"apologies-for-my-tardiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/apologies-for-my-tardiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologies for my tardiness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made plans and reminders to participate in the morning half-marathon. Life intervenes. For instance, none of my calendar reminders went off this morning. But I also went to bed last night with a writing project that should have been finished only half done. I rose with my head full of thoughts on how to finish and proceeded to hash out the piece until noon, when I always go to the Y to swim. Once I finished my laps, my wife wanted to go for coffee and only when we got home, took a nap, fed the cats and I\u00a0returned to the project, still unfinished did she remind me, &#8220;Weren&#8217;t you doing a marathon?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I also discovered that my time converter site, which said the event starts at 9am\u00a0CST, was wrong.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38854\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38854\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/schedule-1024x693.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/schedule-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/schedule-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/schedule-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/schedule.jpg 1496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excuse: My programmer forgot to add a schedule to my software!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Excuses, however, matter little. I will be at least begin now, and continue with the second-half marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made plans and reminders to participate in the morning half-marathon. Life intervenes. For instance, none of my calendar reminders went off this morning. But I also went to bed last night with a writing project that should have been finished only half done. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38600","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\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38871,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38600\/revisions\/38871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}