{"id":61089,"date":"2020-06-26T21:25:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=61089"},"modified":"2020-06-26T21:25:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:25:43","slug":"year-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/year-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Year Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, fellow writers! Are you as excited as I am to be joining poets from all over the globe tomorrow for this marathon?<\/p>\n<p>This is my second time participating. I only do the twelve-hour portion because my ol&#8217; body can&#8217;t handle staying up for twenty-four.<\/p>\n<p>Since last completing, I have published my first two novels! They are cozy stories about two characters named George and Mabel, loosely based upon my husband and me. The biggest difference is that George and Mabel made&#8230;um, not quite <em>better<\/em> choices but certainly ones that had Steve and I made would most likely have had a dramatic effect on our lives. If you&#8217;d like to read about them, you can find them on Amazon.com. Here are the links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Adventures-George-Mabel-Almost-Stories\/dp\/B086FY8XZM\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1585856008&amp;sr=1-1-fkmr0\"><em>The Adventures of George and Mabel: Based on an Almost (Kind of? Sort of? Could Be?) True<\/em> Story<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Adventures-George-Mabel-Almost-Stories\/dp\/B086FY8XZM\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1585856008&amp;sr=1-1-fkmr0\"><em>The Adventures of George and Mabel: Based on More Almost (Kind of? Sort of? Could be!) True Stories.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is going to be great! I look forward to reading your stories and learning more about you. Get some good sleep and Lord willing, I shall be with you in the morning!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stef<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61094 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sunflower-barn-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sunflower-barn-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sunflower-barn-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sunflower-barn.jpg 939w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, fellow writers! Are you as excited as I am to be joining poets from all over the globe tomorrow for this marathon? This is my second time participating. I only do the twelve-hour portion because my ol&#8217; body can&#8217;t handle staying up for twenty-four&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61089","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\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61095,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61089\/revisions\/61095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}