{"id":71449,"date":"2020-06-27T21:01:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71449"},"modified":"2020-06-27T21:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:03:22","slug":"2020-hour-12-last-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/2020-hour-12-last-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Hour 12: Last Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here, in the last hour, I have no voice.<\/p>\n<p>Before, I fought out my inadequacies<\/p>\n<p>On this page,<\/p>\n<p>Thorough and gut-spilling self-examination<\/p>\n<p>Well-versed shots at my own heart<\/p>\n<p>But this feels different.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mediocrity has come for me<\/p>\n<p>After a protracted pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>I always wrote to defend myself, thinking,<\/p>\n<p>If I surgically unearthed my soul<\/p>\n<p>And put it on display,<\/p>\n<p>The mediocrity would sigh<\/p>\n<p>And retreat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it is entrenched;<\/p>\n<p>Having taken up a position on all my flanks<\/p>\n<p>Not to attack but worse, to mute.<\/p>\n<p>And my defense, my mighty pen against this sword,<\/p>\n<p>Cowers.<\/p>\n<p>And this repeats in my ear-<\/p>\n<p>No one can stop you from being an unknown writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, in the last hour, I have no voice. Before, I fought out my inadequacies On this page, Thorough and gut-spilling self-examination Well-versed shots at my own heart But this feels different. &nbsp; Mediocrity has come for me After a protracted pursuit. I always wrote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71449","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\/959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71499,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71449\/revisions\/71499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}