{"id":73390,"date":"2020-06-27T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73390"},"modified":"2020-06-28T02:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:02:33","slug":"me-in-a-nutshell-help-im-trapped-in-this-enormous-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/me-in-a-nutshell-help-im-trapped-in-this-enormous-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"me in a nutshell: &#8220;help! i&#8217;m trapped in this enormous nutshell!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an aunt, a dog mom, an anarchist following in my mother&#8217;s footsteps, and a writer.<\/p>\n<p>I live in St. Louis. Our summers boast the kind of humidity that&#8217;s good for fostering irises and spider ferns and discussions about the merits of dry heat versus wet heat (those discussions have a disturbing lack of innuendo-awareness; perhaps that, too, is a regional failing).<\/p>\n<p>2020 is my first Poetry Marathon. I usually write poetry for purely personal reasons&#8211;generally just working through my own thoughts. For work, I have a long-term memoir project, but primarily write about hockey (the Washington Capitals!) for the sports site Russian Machine Never Breaks. I&#8217;m also a freelance editor (specializing in academia and short fiction, with additional experience in indexing, and perhaps too obvious a hankering for additional clients&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>I have a dog. He&#8217;s much cuter than I am. (He&#8217;s also a grumpy old man, but I&#8217;m much grumpier than he is.) I&#8217;m fairly active on Twitter if you&#8217;d like to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/youripides\">get to know more about me there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise: I hope I finish out the rest of this half-marathon, and shall now stop procrastinating and get to writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an aunt, a dog mom, an anarchist following in my mother&#8217;s footsteps, and a writer. I live in St. Louis. Our summers boast the kind of humidity that&#8217;s good for fostering irises and spider ferns and discussions about the merits of dry heat versus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1532,"featured_media":73421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3442,1162],"class_list":["post-73390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-introductions","tag-2020poetrymarathon","tag-introduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73390","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\/1532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73506,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73390\/revisions\/73506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}