{"id":86810,"date":"2021-06-23T23:01:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T03:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=86810"},"modified":"2021-06-23T23:01:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T03:01:16","slug":"my-first-marathon-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/my-first-marathon-3\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-86812\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200523_094432-scaled-e1624501132742-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200523_094432-scaled-e1624501132742-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200523_094432-scaled-e1624501132742-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200523_094432-scaled-e1624501132742-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200523_094432-scaled-e1624501132742-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200523_094432-scaled-e1624501132742.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hello, I&#8217;m Valarie Kirkwood and I have been writing since I read the poem &#8220;Who has seen the Wind,&#8221; in second grade, ages ago. My nom de plume is V.J. Kirkwood. My poems have found their way into two college English department journals, the Kansas State University &#8220;Discoverer&#8221; and the Cameron University&#8217;s &#8220;Rose.&#8221; The short story is my main genre, but poetry has my heart. I love the rhythm of poetry, the rhyme of the movement.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to the marathon to see if it draws out my best.<\/p>\n<p>I want to wish everyone the best and Happy marathoning to all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hello, I&#8217;m Valarie Kirkwood and I have been writing since I read the poem &#8220;Who has seen the Wind,&#8221; in second grade, ages ago. My nom de plume is V.J. Kirkwood. My poems have found their way into two college English department journals, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86810","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\/3452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86819,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86810\/revisions\/86819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}