{"id":86970,"date":"2021-06-25T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=86970"},"modified":"2021-06-25T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:03:09","slug":"introduction-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/introduction-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Linda. I&#8217;m an active member of &#8220;Poetry for the Love of It&#8221; (PLOI) in Tallahassee, Florida (USA) &#8211; a chapter of the Florida State Poets Association (FSPA). PLOI is also affiliated with our local senior center. All current members are seniors. We currently study a notable poet each month, and share our original poems.<\/p>\n<p>My professional career involved technical writing. I began playing with poetry to entertain family &amp; friends. That is still one of my primary motivations.<\/p>\n<p>I am a cat lover. Meow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Linda. I&#8217;m an active member of &#8220;Poetry for the Love of It&#8221; (PLOI) in Tallahassee, Florida (USA) &#8211; a chapter of the Florida State Poets Association (FSPA). PLOI is also affiliated with our local senior center. All current members are seniors. We&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86970","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\/1384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86985,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86970\/revisions\/86985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}