{"id":46753,"date":"2019-06-22T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46753"},"modified":"2019-06-22T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:51:04","slug":"2019-1-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/2019-1-existence\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 #1&#8211;Existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Existence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I don\u2019t know who I was<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Or who I am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Having laid waste to everything <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Until right now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By doing nothing at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So here I am, a blank page<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like this was a blank page<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Before even it came alive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Struggling to say I am your words.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So I am-this empty page<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No preface and no conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unless&#8211;I am courageous enough<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To put the life less taken to paper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And then turn that page.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I am only a reflection of my past<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comfortably well-read but never lived<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If that is who I am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I choose the pen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As my sword<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To lay waste to the regret.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am who I will be.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#1 \u00a0 Existence \u00a0 I don\u2019t know who I was Or who I am Having laid waste to everything Until right now By doing nothing at all. So here I am, a blank page Like this was a blank page Before even it came alive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46753","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\/959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46775,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46753\/revisions\/46775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}