{"id":57779,"date":"2019-06-23T08:09:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57779"},"modified":"2019-07-02T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T20:15:01","slug":"dont-stop-believin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/dont-stop-believin\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Stop Believin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t stop believin\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I did, once<br \/>\nI stopped, I let myself sink<br \/>\nnot into a lull, not a momentary lapse<br \/>\nbut a period of complete<br \/>\nnothingness<br \/>\nI settled into a life of<br \/>\nlong work hours and few excitements<br \/>\nand empty-headed melancholy<\/p>\n<p>I lived in mediocrity for years,<br \/>\nexploring nothing outside of<br \/>\nwork, sleep, repeat<\/p>\n<p>until<\/p>\n<p>I was inspired,<br \/>\nrejuvenated, energized once again<br \/>\nI remembered who I once dreamed of being<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nfinally<br \/>\nmade a plan<br \/>\nto make that ethereal person into a reality<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s slow, and the fear in the pit of my stomach<br \/>\nis ever-present<br \/>\nsome days I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever<br \/>\nreach that far off destiny<\/p>\n<p>I shove my way past limitations<br \/>\nbecause that is the only way I will ever<br \/>\nmake a place for myself<br \/>\ndoing something I love.<\/p>\n<p>All I have to do<br \/>\nis change my reality<br \/>\nChange myself.<\/p>\n<p>I have already begun,<br \/>\nand I\u2019m nowhere close to finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t stop believin\u2019 I did, once I stopped, I let myself sink not into a lull, not a momentary lapse but a period of complete nothingness I settled into a life of long work hours and few excitements and empty-headed melancholy I lived in mediocrity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57779","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\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59055,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57779\/revisions\/59055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}