{"id":51262,"date":"2019-06-22T17:28:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51262"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:38:52","slug":"paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creative Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing is a solitary endeavor.<br \/>\nWhether in your room or in a public space,<br \/>\nyou are in your own head<br \/>\ncreating worlds out of electrical impulses<br \/>\nand words.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, you look outward.<br \/>\nYou listen.<br \/>\nYou even converse,<br \/>\nthen take it all home with you,<br \/>\nor to the diner where you work,<br \/>\nyour coffee going cold as you write.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing is a social exercise.<br \/>\nWhat you wrote in private<br \/>\nbecomes public.  For a poet especially,<br \/>\nthere are no secrets.<\/p>\n<p>How do we navigate both worlds,<br \/>\ncome to terms with the self&#8217;s two halves?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing is a solitary endeavor. Whether in your room or in a public space, you are in your own head creating worlds out of electrical impulses and words. Sure, you look outward. You listen. You even converse, then take it all home with you, or&#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-51262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51262","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=51262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51684,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51262\/revisions\/51684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}