{"id":87094,"date":"2021-06-25T17:39:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T21:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87094"},"modified":"2021-06-25T17:39:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T21:39:41","slug":"not-quite-ready-to-rumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/not-quite-ready-to-rumble\/","title":{"rendered":"Not quite ready to rumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all, I&#8217;m Allison. I&#8217;m a 37-year old writer based in Chicago, where it&#8217;s supposed to thunderstorm all weekend. Bad for people who want to enjoy vaccinated life at the beach, but great for me! This is my first marathon, and I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;ll help me warm up the poem-writing muscles I haven&#8217;t used much since I started working as a film and TV critic. I&#8217;m also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allisonshoe\/status\/1408536165871984648\">trying to raise money for the Chicago Black Drag Council<\/a>, which gives out microgrants to Black nightlife gig workers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I don&#8217;t use Facebook, but if anyone out there wants to connect over Twitter or Insta, hit me up. And if you need a cheerleader, I am terrible at cartwheels but great at Leslie Knope-style inspirational speeches. Let me know.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87099\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/leslie.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey y&#8217;all, I&#8217;m Allison. I&#8217;m a 37-year old writer based in Chicago, where it&#8217;s supposed to thunderstorm all weekend. Bad for people who want to enjoy vaccinated life at the beach, but great for me! This is my first marathon, and I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;ll help&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87094","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\/3594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87100,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87094\/revisions\/87100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}