{"id":62356,"date":"2020-06-27T10:02:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62356"},"modified":"2020-07-07T07:42:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T11:42:47","slug":"1-life-in-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/1-life-in-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"1.  LIFE IN LOCKDOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world has turned upside down.<\/p>\n<p>Social distancing is the new norm.<\/p>\n<p>It takes some getting use to, this life in lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>in all its unique form.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My profession, I conduct over social media.<\/p>\n<p>Zoom meetings, telephone consultations are all virtual.<\/p>\n<p>To make it work, finding a new way, a new idea.<\/p>\n<p>Is this going to be the new perpetual?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No restaurants and no eating out!<\/p>\n<p>No cinema, no sports and no social gathering!<\/p>\n<p>Always a mask on my face if I am out and about<\/p>\n<p>Always washing hands and sanitizing!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Wait!\u00a0 Social distancing has some positive privilege.<\/p>\n<p>My home is my new office, hence no traffic.<\/p>\n<p>More time to spend with my family, an added advantage<\/p>\n<p>No longer in a rat race, rushing here and there to make quick.<\/p>\n<p>This new norm, I can get use to,<\/p>\n<p>since, staying at home, circumvents, \u00e7ontracting the corona flu!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world has turned upside down. Social distancing is the new norm. It takes some getting use to, this life in lockdown. in all its unique form. &nbsp; My profession, I conduct over social media. Zoom meetings, telephone consultations are all virtual. To make it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62356","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\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78210,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62356\/revisions\/78210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}