{"id":60940,"date":"2020-06-26T16:13:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=60940"},"modified":"2020-06-28T08:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:45:28","slug":"introduction-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/introduction-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Setting a mark in the sand before my first marathon.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a lot of poetry when I was younger and trying to get through many difficulties of early life. I was inspired to come back to writing in the past year and it has been a witness to myself since.<\/p>\n<p>I trained as a psychologist and then went on to focus on psychoanalysis. I have also had a life-long interest in esoterica and mysticism. I lived and travelled in many parts of the world, and my default medium for expression has been oil painting. My writing aims to blend these interests. I am interested in how emotional lived experiences can echo in a hermetic fashion a yearning for the sublime, played out in the diversity of the world around us.<\/p>\n<p>I am intending to focus during the 24 hours on a broader range of themes, than I have written about lately. I was once told that a lack of sleep was a &#8216;cheap gnosis&#8217;, lets see where that takes me from the 15th hour onwards.<\/p>\n<p>I posted some previous works before if anyone has an interest to see them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60346\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BA5F73F2-5335-43ED-B727-8B8B4FB463B2-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BA5F73F2-5335-43ED-B727-8B8B4FB463B2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BA5F73F2-5335-43ED-B727-8B8B4FB463B2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BA5F73F2-5335-43ED-B727-8B8B4FB463B2-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BA5F73F2-5335-43ED-B727-8B8B4FB463B2.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting a mark in the sand before my first marathon. I wrote a lot of poetry when I was younger and trying to get through many difficulties of early life. I was inspired to come back to writing in the past year and it has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60940","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\/1431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60961,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60940\/revisions\/60961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}