{"id":86547,"date":"2021-06-15T12:41:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=86547"},"modified":"2021-06-15T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:41:51","slug":"introducing-balqees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/introducing-balqees\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Balqees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. I&#8217;m Balqees Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>This is my first poetry marathon &#8211; and I&#8217;m glad to be a part of it. I plan (hope) to live up to the commitment for the 24hr marathon.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a published poet &#8211; but have always loved poetry as an outlet for my thoughts and feelings &#8211; so here goes!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a mother of 3 and happy grandmother of 12 &#8211; with 2 more on the way soon! Have lots of life experience to draw upon &#8211; so hopefully this experience will prove to be beneficial for me.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy reading, walking for exercise, family time and visiting cafe&#8217;s. I am an avid graphics designer with some website design and maintenance under my belt as well. As I am a practicing muslim, some of my poems may have reference to Islamic teachings and theology. Looking forward to connecting with more marathoners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. I&#8217;m Balqees Mohammed. This is my first poetry marathon &#8211; and I&#8217;m glad to be a part of it. I plan (hope) to live up to the commitment for the 24hr marathon. I am not a published poet &#8211; but have always loved poetry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4101],"class_list":["post-86547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","tag-2021poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86547","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\/2287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86548,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86547\/revisions\/86548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}