{"id":73316,"date":"2020-06-28T01:59:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73316"},"modified":"2020-06-28T01:59:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:59:34","slug":"a-poets-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-poets-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poet\u2019s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A Poet\u2019s Dilemma <br \/><br \/>\u201cHow do you describe pen to paper?\u201d Anne Coen<br \/><br \/>A pen without ink<br \/>is like an unloaded gun in a home invasion.<br \/>It is a blender full of fruit without a lid,<br \/>where your thoughts, ideas spill over<br \/>and go missing.<br \/>Because you don\u2019t have the means<br \/>to write it down.<br \/><br \/>A pen without ink <br \/>is a dog without a leash<br \/>that spots a squirrel.<br \/>It\u2019s a faucet running without a seal<br \/>turning your kitchen into a sprinkler system.<br \/><br \/>A pen without ink <br \/>is a $9.00 leaky Starbucks cup<br \/>filled with espresso on a Monday morning.<br \/>It is traveling without Waze or Google Maps,<br \/>you know your destination, but not how far to get there.<br \/><br \/>How do you describe pen to paper? <br \/>Like blood and veins to the heart and brain.<br \/>Some people are lost without them.<br \/><br \/>Margarette Wahl<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Poet\u2019s Dilemma \u201cHow do you describe pen to paper?\u201d Anne Coen A pen without inkis like an unloaded gun in a home invasion.It is a blender full of fruit without a lid,where your thoughts, ideas spill overand go missing.Because you don\u2019t have the meansto&#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-73316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73316","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=73316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73739,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73316\/revisions\/73739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}