{"id":4511,"date":"2014-08-24T08:18:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2014-08-25T03:53:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:53:06","slug":"self-portrait-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/self-portrait-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">I once went to a psychic medium, who said I was like a tortoise:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Very slow, but certainly sure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">And so it has proven, for my life thus far has taken its time and its toll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 12pt 0cm;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 12pt 0cm;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Yet, as my body grows weary, and the aches and pains set my pace,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 12pt 0cm;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">I perceive in my spirit, a sprightlier gait then many<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 12pt 0cm;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Who have already grown tired of life\u2019s rewards- that are new to me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once went to a psychic medium, who said I was like a tortoise: Very slow, but certainly sure. And so it has proven, for my life thus far has taken its time and its toll. \u00a0 Yet, as my body grows weary, and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4728,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions\/4728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}