{"id":87103,"date":"2021-06-25T18:04:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T22:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87103"},"modified":"2021-06-25T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T22:04:01","slug":"i-was-so-much-older-then-im-younger-than-that-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/i-was-so-much-older-then-im-younger-than-that-now\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;I was so much older then, I&#8217;m younger than that now&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been seven years since I first introduced myself to this incredible group. And I&#8217;m still writing poetry, still putting it out there, still finding (sometimes!) homes for what crystallises from my inner chaos. I love my annual participation in the Half Marathon: I&#8217;ve made so many friends! Not to mention that each year, at least a couple of the pieces I draft (in the 12 hours I suspend my disbelief that I can do this) are published.<\/p>\n<p>I live in Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We moved here 4+ years ago, to be w\/ my son, DIL, and 2 grandsons. I&#8217;ve never been happier. I find myself writing about this new landscape, the foggy mountainscape, the different birds &amp; chipmunks &amp; voles&#8230; I&#8217;m very lucky we moved before last year&#8217;s madness.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that this year is brighter than last, and that we all complete our work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been seven years since I first introduced myself to this incredible group. And I&#8217;m still writing poetry, still putting it out there, still finding (sometimes!) homes for what crystallises from my inner chaos. I love my annual participation in the Half Marathon: I&#8217;ve made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4114,313],"class_list":["post-87103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions","tag-2021-half-marathon","tag-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87103","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87106,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87103\/revisions\/87106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}