{"id":66273,"date":"2020-06-27T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66273"},"modified":"2020-06-27T14:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:19:14","slug":"6-purple-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/6-purple-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"#6 Purple Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will my voice matter?<br \/>\nis every writer\u2019s quest<br \/>\nquestion, coping quicksand<\/p>\n<p>not the sound as it sputters<br \/>\nand reverberates into the throat<\/p>\n<p>but the worry<br \/>\nhovering at the back of self-<br \/>\nimportance. Choked by diffidence,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m supposed to write <\/p>\n<p>for myself<br \/>\nbecause I\u2019m called to words<br \/>\nlike a moth to flame<br \/>\nand if the page ignites<br \/>\nink burns<\/p>\n<p>cinders remain<br \/>\nlining the annals of history.<\/p>\n<p>Will my combustion resonate?<br \/>\nis every poet\u2019s plight<br \/>\nashen and disintegrating<br \/>\nlike remnants <\/p>\n<p>whispering<br \/>\n\tin<br \/>\n\t\tthe<br \/>\n\t\t\twind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will my voice matter? is every writer\u2019s quest question, coping quicksand not the sound as it sputters and reverberates into the throat but the worry hovering at the back of self- importance. Choked by diffidence, I\u2019m supposed to write for myself because I\u2019m called to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66273","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\/1489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66288,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66273\/revisions\/66288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}