{"id":692,"date":"2014-08-17T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T22:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2014-08-17T18:32:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T22:32:46","slug":"logophile-from-norcal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/logophile-from-norcal\/","title":{"rendered":"Logophile from NorCal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, friends. \u00a0I&#8217;m Veronica, a writer from northern California. Grant proposals, reports, blogs, social media posts, profiles, pamphlets, brochures, homeschool curriculum, non-fiction books &#8211; whatever it takes. Those are all for other people. \u00a0I&#8217;m currently working on a novel and a collection of poems. \u00a0Those are for me. I used to tell people I wasn&#8217;t\u00a0a poet until I realized how silly that is. To love <del>words<\/del> is to be a poet.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I decide to join the Poetry Marathon? \u00a0I saw the post for it on Facebook and thought, &#8220;Why not? What better way to shake loose the creative cobwebs?&#8221; \u00a0I also did it because I&#8217;m not a joiner, but I need to connect with others. \u00a0This seemed like a good way.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a wife, a mom, a writer, a San Francisco Giants fan, a dog lover, a woman of faith, a friend, an orphan, a sister, and a devotee of the Oxford comma. And that&#8217;s just a start.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t plan to do anything special to prepare for the marathon. I&#8217;m not a stranger to all night writing sessions, so bring it on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, friends. \u00a0I&#8217;m Veronica, a writer from northern California. Grant proposals, reports, blogs, social media posts, profiles, pamphlets, brochures, homeschool curriculum, non-fiction books &#8211; whatever it takes. Those are all for other people. \u00a0I&#8217;m currently working on a novel and a collection of poems. \u00a0Those&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","tag-veronica-robbins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}