{"id":5299,"date":"2015-06-07T04:50:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T08:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=5299"},"modified":"2015-06-07T04:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T08:50:33","slug":"introduction-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/introduction-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am Author\/Poet Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo from the Philippines and I am joining the half poetry marathon. I am a Professional Writer\/Journalist\/Short Story Writer\/Blogger\/Published International Author\/Poet\/Editor\/Proofreader\/Speaker and an Online English Instructor. I published 2 international books &#8211; &#8220;Seasons of Emotions&#8221; (UK) and &#8220;Inner Reflections of the Muse&#8221; (USA), and co-authored more than 50 international anthologies in the USA, Canada, UK, Romania, India, and Africa. I am currently doing an international charity anthology for the benefit of the Nepal Earthquake survivors along with other writing projects.This is first time to join the Poetry Marathon but I did join some other poetry marathons like this before. I am preparing myself for the upcoming marathon and I am up for the challenge! I am glad to be a part of this year&#8217;s Poetry Marathon! Thanks for accepting my application!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Author\/Poet Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo from the Philippines and I am joining the half poetry marathon. I am a Professional Writer\/Journalist\/Short Story Writer\/Blogger\/Published International Author\/Poet\/Editor\/Proofreader\/Speaker and an Online English Instructor. I published 2 international books &#8211; &#8220;Seasons of Emotions&#8221; (UK) and &#8220;Inner Reflections of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299","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\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5304,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions\/5304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}