{"id":86628,"date":"2021-06-19T11:56:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T15:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=86628"},"modified":"2021-06-19T11:56:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T15:56:02","slug":"dave-hirsh-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/dave-hirsh-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Hirsh Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first year I am participating in the poetry marathon.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been writing poetry, or at least what I call poetry, since I was in elementary school.\u00a0 I post poetry on youtube and facebook, sometimes with music.\u00a0 I enjoy reading poetry aloud, and reading poetry and listening to other poets recite their own work and the work of others.\u00a0 \u00a0Writing poetry for me is a process.\u00a0 I think about a few lines for a few days until I am comfortable with those lines and then I write them down and write around those lines.\u00a0 Once I have a first draft,\u00a0 I edit until I feel comfortable that the effect is what I wanted.\u00a0 \u00a0Because the marathon compresses my usual timeline, not giving me the opportunity to edit,\u00a0 I am a little nervous about the output.\u00a0 \u00a0I hope I have internalized enough about what I am attempting to achieve in a poem to write at least a few worthy poem.\u00a0 Thank you for the opportunity.\u00a0 \u00a0 I look forward to June 26, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first year I am participating in the poetry marathon.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been writing poetry, or at least what I call poetry, since I was in elementary school.\u00a0 I post poetry on youtube and facebook, sometimes with music.\u00a0 I enjoy reading poetry aloud, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86628","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\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86630,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86628\/revisions\/86630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}