{"id":52593,"date":"2019-06-22T19:16:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=52593"},"modified":"2019-06-22T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:16:10","slug":"dear-jan-on-the-plane-to-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/dear-jan-on-the-plane-to-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Jan On The Plane to Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Dear Jan,\r\n\r\nYou're on the plane to Madrid right now.\r\nIt's the best decision you've made so far,\r\nand you've tended towards good decisions. \r\nBut, well, you've been cautious and safe. \r\n\r\nJust know: \r\nTake more chances.\r\nStroll those magnificent streets and alleys.\r\nLearn old people's names and all their stories.\r\nMaster the cooking. Imitate the regional dances.\r\nMake Madrid your playground. Remember: parks every day.\r\nSleep under the stars more on your tiny little balcony.\r\nFlirt with the men when you dance, and walk home with \r\nyour best girfriends, one at each house in those streets \r\nyou'll grow to love. \r\nSpend more time with families who embrace you as one of their own.\r\n\r\nYou'll do these, I assure you, but do more. \r\nDive in and keep taking those chances. \r\nYou'll look back on this with great love. \r\nSo beautiful and strong and independent already, \r\nbe so - just more. \r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Jan, You&#8217;re on the plane to Madrid right now. It&#8217;s the best decision you&#8217;ve made so far, and you&#8217;ve tended towards good decisions. But, well, you&#8217;ve been cautious and safe. Just know: Take more chances. Stroll those magnificent streets and alleys. Learn old people&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52593","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\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52744,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52593\/revisions\/52744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}