{"id":5530,"date":"2015-06-07T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2015-06-07T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T18:44:58","slug":"blessed-excited-honored-to-be-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/blessed-excited-honored-to-be-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed, Excited &amp; Honored To Be Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><span style=\"color: #330099\"><span style=\"font-family: Pea Jennifer\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Poetry Marathon Introduction June 7 2015: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><span style=\"color: #330099\"><span style=\"font-family: Pea Jennifer\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Hi there, I am so glad to be a part of this marathon &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iammadeofstarsetc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5532\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iammadeofstarsetc-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Iammadeofstarsetc\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iammadeofstarsetc-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Iammadeofstarsetc.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> I am a published writer and have been writing poetry for years now. It&#8217;s my passion &#8211; it is the best way for me to express myself &#8211; and to learn about myself &#8211; sometimes I don&#8217;t know my thoughts or feelings on something, and I start writing, and the poem speaks to me, and then i get it. It&#8217;s amazing the way it works. I am glad to be here and look forward to meeting new people and to reading poetry! My page on Facebook is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/authorreneeavard\">Worth Catching<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><span style=\"color: #330099\"><span style=\"font-family: Pea Jennifer\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">&#8212; Blessings, love &amp; moonbeams!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAF_Direction_ReneeAvardFurlow_May292015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5538\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAF_Direction_ReneeAvardFurlow_May292015-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"RAF_Direction_ReneeAvardFurlow_May292015\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAF_Direction_ReneeAvardFurlow_May292015-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAF_Direction_ReneeAvardFurlow_May292015-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RAF_Direction_ReneeAvardFurlow_May292015.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry Marathon Introduction June 7 2015: Hi there, I am so glad to be a part of this marathon &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am a published writer and have been writing poetry for years now. It&#8217;s my passion &#8211; it is the best way for me to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","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\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5539,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions\/5539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}