{"id":5190,"date":"2015-06-07T00:13:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T04:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2015-06-07T00:13:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T04:13:56","slug":"what-the-heck-are-you-doing-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/what-the-heck-are-you-doing-here\/","title":{"rendered":"What the heck are you doing here!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Greetings Earthlings<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Okay so I am an earthling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">My names Dan. \u00a0Nice to meet all of you. I am from Texas but by no means conservative nor republican.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I used to call myself Daniel from Chicago, because that&#8217;s my mother&#8217;s home town, and still do from time to time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I enjoy writing but am very gun shy about it. \u00a0When I was younger I had poems stolen from me on two separate occasions. \u00a0So showing off work is a very difficult process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">However, I am attempting to change that in many ways. I recently applied for a competition to be part of the Disney\/ABC writing program. I may or may not get in but that doesn&#8217;t really matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I have allowed my shyness and mistrust to confine my creativity into a microscopic space. And now I am exploding, the epicenter of my own personal super nova.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I don&#8217;t know if my work will be enjoyed. I don&#8217;t know how far I must go until that day when I can cash that first check from my creative writing talents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">All I do know is that if I don&#8217;t try I&#8217;ll live with a regret that&#8217;s closer to death than the black plague. \u00a0 I&#8217;ll be haunted, marked, to wander aimlessly from now till eternity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I&#8217;d rather die trying then doing nothing at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings Earthlings Okay so I am an earthling. My names Dan. \u00a0Nice to meet all of you. I am from Texas but by no means conservative nor republican. I used to call myself Daniel from Chicago, because that&#8217;s my mother&#8217;s home town, and still do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,12],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","tag-hey-its-dan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","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\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5202,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions\/5202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}