{"id":46539,"date":"2019-06-22T09:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46539"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:37:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:37:53","slug":"on-an-ordinary-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/on-an-ordinary-day\/","title":{"rendered":"On An Ordinary Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get up and fight<br \/>\nfor autonomy,<br \/>\nfor a quiet space that&#8217;s mine,<br \/>\nwhere nothing but words and ideas<br \/>\ncan visit.<\/p>\n<p>No television.<br \/>\nNo demands.<br \/>\nNot going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>So, I fight daily battles<br \/>\nfor moments of my own,<br \/>\ninclude thinking time on my too-long to-do list,<br \/>\nshut myself in the room of my mind<br \/>\nwhere the door never quit latches,<br \/>\nwhere the outside world always sneaks in<br \/>\nand waits at my feet.<\/p>\n<p>In those precious snatches,<br \/>\nI lay my sword on the table,<br \/>\nbreathe in the almost silence,<br \/>\ngather my skittish thoughts in a pen<br \/>\nor a Word file.<\/p>\n<p>Some days I win, knowing<br \/>\ntomorrow I&#8217;ll get up<br \/>\nand do battle again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get up and fight for autonomy, for a quiet space that&#8217;s mine, where nothing but words and ideas can visit. No television. No demands. Not going to happen. So, I fight daily battles for moments of my own, include thinking time on my too-long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46539","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46756,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46539\/revisions\/46756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}