{"id":6056,"date":"2015-06-10T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=6056"},"modified":"2015-06-10T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T17:06:09","slug":"hello-from-socal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hello-from-socal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello from SoCal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Diana. My home is in the Southern California Mojave Desert. I have little experience writing and I am eager to begin. At 44 years old, I am in the midst of the glorious challenge of figuring out what I want to do when I grow up. I am drawn to writing in most genres. I write and speak on various non-fiction topics including Christianity, Education and A.D.H.D.. My desire is to break into freelance work and fictional novels, of which I am actively perusing.<\/p>\n<p>I anticipate that The Poetry Marathon will challenge me both creatively and mechanically, but I welcome it.\u00a0I am not sure what to expect, but I will keep my eyes open and hopefully gain some insight. I am sure I will make a number of mistakes but hey, that&#8217;s how I learn. Good luck everyone and may it be a productive adventure!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, My name is Diana. My home is in the Southern California Mojave Desert. I have little experience writing and I am eager to begin. At 44 years old, I am in the midst of the glorious challenge of figuring out what I want to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6059,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions\/6059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}