{"id":86876,"date":"2021-06-25T02:11:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=86876"},"modified":"2021-07-25T22:25:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T02:25:54","slug":"its-not-all-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/its-not-all-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not All About Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8220;In my little garden pretty&#8221; was the first line to the very first poem I ever wrote as a 7-year-old. I love words and making them work for me. Originally from Pennsylvania, I am a coal miner&#8217;s daughter. Now residing in Lakewood, Colorado, I happily write at a mile high. I am on sabbatical from a 5-year stint as an editor\/writer for a Women&#8217;s Ministry monthly newsletter. I&#8217;m a professional editor and proofreader who has had several poems published in literary publications. When I was much younger, I aspired to be a baton twirler when I grew up. I partially fulfilled that dream by having fulfilling careers in the education world (middle school through university level) where I had to spin as fast as I could to keep up with the students and advancements in teaching!<\/h2>\n<h2>My horse Morning Starr and my 18-year-old feral cat, Mewzette, occupy some of my time when I am not wordsmithing.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In my little garden pretty&#8221; was the first line to the very first poem I ever wrote as a 7-year-old. I love words and making them work for me. Originally from Pennsylvania, I am a coal miner&#8217;s daughter. Now residing in Lakewood, Colorado, I happily&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86876","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\/3619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86876"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104614,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86876\/revisions\/104614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}