{"id":68418,"date":"2020-06-27T18:10:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=68418"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:10:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:10:04","slug":"trading-bows-for-quills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/trading-bows-for-quills\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading Bows for Quills"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Trading Bows for Quills<br \/><br \/>\u201cYou may be disappointed if you fail, <br \/>but you are doomed if you don\u2019t try.\u201d Beverly Sills<br \/><br \/>Two and a half years I tried.<br \/>Had professional lessons and practiced.<br \/>A tattoo of a shamrock on my wrist <br \/>convinced me along,<br \/>coax into believing <br \/>I\u2019d become an Irish fiddler.<br \/><br \/>Celtic Blaze,<br \/>Celtic Thunder,<br \/>Celtic Woman,<br \/>Andy Cooney songs<br \/>and Eileen Ivers, <br \/>the Jimi Hendrix of fiddle players.<br \/>Everything Irish that I am not.<br \/><br \/>I came,<br \/>I tried <br \/>and was overcome.<br \/>The experiences granted me<br \/>the gift of writing.<br \/>So instead I became a Poet.<br \/><br \/>Margarette Wahl<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trading Bows for Quills \u201cYou may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don\u2019t try.\u201d Beverly Sills Two and a half years I tried.Had professional lessons and practiced.A tattoo of a shamrock on my wrist convinced me along,coax into believing I\u2019d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68418","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\/1461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69415,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68418\/revisions\/69415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}