{"id":60079,"date":"2020-06-14T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T18:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=60079"},"modified":"2020-06-14T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T18:58:05","slug":"well-here-we-are-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/well-here-we-are-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Here We Are Again…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…it’s always such a pleasure.
\nDespite the many times I’ve tailed before.
\nOh how I wrote and wrote,
\nUntil I just stopped writing.
\nGave up the fight, succumbed and simply started to snore.<\/p>\n

I’m too old for all-nighters,
\nThat’s what I’ve come to see
\nI’ve failed the full too often,
\nNow it’s just the half for me.<\/p>\n

\n

OK, that’s enough of that. Channel GLaDOS for too long and I start to itch. For this challenge, I need the focused determination of Chell, and the garrulousness of Wheatley. (Note to self: Don’t get those the wrong way round.)<\/p>\n

I don’t know why Portal<\/em>‘s on my mind so much at the moment, but since it is, I simply must call my final, 1 a.m. poem “Still Alive”. Or perhaps, “Still Awake”, assuming that I am. The Portal<\/a><\/em> soundtrack<\/a> (not the closing songs, the rest of it) is really excellent writing music, too.<\/p>\n

Have I hit upon my theme for 2020? Between Portal<\/em>, Portal 2<\/em>, and Blue Sky<\/em><\/a> (which I cannot recommend highly enough to Portal fans) I should easily have enough inspiration for 12 poems.<\/p>\n

This post is approaching 200 words, and I still haven’t introduced myself. Then again, what else is there to say? If you’re familiar with\u00a0Portal<\/em>, you get the idea, and if you’re not then this post will make no sense to you — and neither will any of my poems. Sorry about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…it’s always such a pleasure. Despite the many times I’ve tailed before. Oh how I wrote and wrote, Until I just stopped writing. Gave up the fight, succumbed and simply started to snore. I’m too old for all-nighters, That’s what I’ve come to see I’ve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1173,3439,313,284,3438,3440],"class_list":["post-60079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-half-marathon","tag-intro-2020","tag-introductions","tag-music","tag-portal-2","tag-youtube-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60079","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60083,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60079\/revisions\/60083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}