{"id":42837,"date":"2017-08-06T08:07:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42837"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:07:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:07:30","slug":"the-marathons-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-marathons-end\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marathon’s End"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t think the sun has ever looked so lovely as it does this morning.<\/p>\n

It’s been a long run, but like every story, all good things must end.<\/p>\n

So too does this marathon, the ultimate test of our skills and strengths.<\/p>\n

Poetry has always been my weakness,<\/p>\n

I entered this marathon to make it a strength.<\/p>\n

Whether I succeeded or not, I realize doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n

What’s important is that passion for the craft exceeds all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t think the sun has ever looked so lovely as it does this morning. It’s been a long run, but like every story, all good things must end. So too does this marathon, the ultimate test of our skills and strengths. Poetry has always…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42837","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\/1038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42866,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42837\/revisions\/42866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}