{"id":62310,"date":"2020-06-27T09:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62310"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T00:55:42","slug":"the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The Race &#8211; Hour #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anxious participants gather at the starting line.<\/p>\n<p>The marathon begins with fervor.<\/p>\n<p>Fingers posed, minds a flutter,<\/p>\n<p>ideas spinning, twisting, swirling,<\/p>\n<p>words clashing and smashing and coalescing,<\/p>\n<p>mental muscles flexing, stretching,<\/p>\n<p>drawing on every ounce of creative energy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The minutes tick by<\/p>\n<p>60, 59, 58, 57 . . .<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts begin to take shape<\/p>\n<p>then dissipate into the ether<\/p>\n<p>30, 29, 28 , 27 . . .<\/p>\n<p>Hour one drawing closer to an end<\/p>\n<p>with only a disjointed collection of letters on a page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>15, 14, 13, 12 \u00a0. . .<\/p>\n<p>But there are yet 11 hours to go!<\/p>\n<p>Can I entice a Muse to visit and inspire?<\/p>\n<p>Who will join me in this chase to the finish line?<\/p>\n<p>Calliope?<\/p>\n<p>Erato?<\/p>\n<p>Polyhymnia?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4, 3, 2, 1 . . .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anxious participants gather at the starting line. The marathon begins with fervor. Fingers posed, minds a flutter, ideas spinning, twisting, swirling, words clashing and smashing and coalescing, mental muscles flexing, stretching, drawing on every ounce of creative energy. &nbsp; The minutes tick by 60, 59,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62310","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\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62310"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78181,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62310\/revisions\/78181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}