{"id":47001,"date":"2019-06-22T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47001"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:09:14","slug":"i-am-many-things-but-wish-i-were-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/i-am-many-things-but-wish-i-were-more\/","title":{"rendered":"I am many things &#8230; but wish I were more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am courageous.<br \/>\nIn my mind, I am a super hero. When I become fearful, I fall to earth.<br \/>\nA human. Being. But am I?<br \/>\nI am flawed.<br \/>\nIn my body. In my way of thinking. I wear my flaws like designer jewels.<br \/>\nIn my mind, I waltz with confidence.<br \/>\nBut in my body, I drag and limp to the invisible finish line.<br \/>\nI am tired.<br \/>\nOf thinking of cool, innovative ideas.<br \/>\nOf competing. With others. With myself.<br \/>\nSo I shuffle with the masses and berate myself, which does not add fuel to the super human being lost inside. Will she ever find her way out?<br \/>\nI am rebellious.<br \/>\nBut chose the most obvious path. Rebel without a worthy cause?<br \/>\nIs that even a rebel?<br \/>\nIs this a metaphor?<br \/>\nWhy can\u2019t I just cheer choosing and taking action instead of face plant in my phone, not facing reality. Planting more seeds of worry.<br \/>\nI am unoriginal.<br \/>\nAs evidenced by this boring choice of starting with I am.<br \/>\nSo much for subtlety.<br \/>\nI am. Why oh why can\u2019t that be enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am courageous. In my mind, I am a super hero. When I become fearful, I fall to earth. A human. Being. But am I? I am flawed. In my body. In my way of thinking. I wear my flaws like designer jewels. In my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-47001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-poem-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47001","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\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47016,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47001\/revisions\/47016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}